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Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Exam Guide

By : Mélony Qin
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Book Image

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Exam Guide

4 (1)
By: Mélony Qin

Overview of this book

Kubernetes is the most popular container orchestration tool in the industry. The Kubernetes Administrator certification will help you establish your credibility and enable you to efficiently support the business growth of individual organizations with the help of this open source platform. The book begins by introducing you to Kubernetes architecture and the core concepts of Kubernetes. You'll then get to grips with the main Kubernetes API primitives, before diving into cluster installation, configuration, and management. Moving ahead, you’ll explore different approaches while maintaining the Kubernetes cluster, perform upgrades for the Kubernetes cluster, as well as backup and restore etcd. As you advance, you'll deploy and manage workloads on Kubernetes and work with storage for Kubernetes stateful workloads with the help of practical scenarios. You'll also delve into managing the security of Kubernetes applications and understand how different components in Kubernetes communicate with each other and with other applications. The concluding chapters will show you how to troubleshoot cluster- and application-level logging and monitoring, cluster components, and applications in Kubernetes. By the end of this Kubernetes book, you'll be fully prepared to pass the CKA exam and gain practical knowledge that can be applied in your day-to-day work.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Part 1: Cluster Architecture, Installation, and Configuration
5
Part 2: Managing Kubernetes
10
Part 3: Troubleshooting

Application Scheduling and Lifecycle Management

This chapter describes how to use Kubernetes deployments to deploy pods, scale pods, perform rolling updates and rollbacks, carry out resource management, and use ConfigMaps to configure pods using kubectl commands and YAML definitions. This chapter covers 15% of the CKA exam content.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

  • The basics of Kubernetes workloads
  • Deploying and managing applications
  • Scaling applications
  • Performing rolling updates and rollbacks
  • Resource management
  • Workload scheduling
  • Configuring applications