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CKA — Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Master every CKA exam competency — from cluster setup to troubleshooting. Real cluster operations, kubectl workflows, and hands-on exercises across 5 exam domains.

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5 modules · 63 lessons · ~15h 48m total

CKA

Master every CKA exam competency — from cluster setup to troubleshooting. Real cluster operations, kubectl workflows, and hands-on exercises across 5 exam domains.

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63 written lessons
15h 48m total reading
5 modules
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Course content

5 sections · 63 lessons · 15h 48m total length

  1. Managing Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)13 min
  2. ServiceAccounts, Tokens, and Identity17 min
  3. Preparing Infrastructure for a Kubernetes Cluster15 min
  4. Installing Kubernetes with kubeadm16 min
  5. Kubernetes PKI and Certificate Management22 min
  6. Managing the Kubernetes Cluster Lifecycle11 min
  7. etcd Backup, Restore, and Disaster Recovery13 min
  8. Implementing a Highly-Available Control Plane19 min
  9. Helm and Kustomize for Cluster Components14 min
  10. Helm: Charts, Repositories, and Release Management19 min
  11. Kustomize: Bases, Overlays, and Patches12 min
  12. Extension Interfaces: CNI, CSI, and CRI16 min
  13. CNI: Container Network Interface in Depth20 min
  14. CSI: Container Storage Interface in Depth15 min
  15. CRI: Container Runtime Interface in Depth21 min
  16. CRDs, Operators, and Custom Controllers16 min
  17. Custom Resource Definitions: Extending the Kubernetes API16 min
  18. Operators: Pattern, Installation, and Lifecycle18 min

  1. Deployments: Rolling Updates and Rollbacks21 min
  2. StatefulSets: Ordered, Stateful Workload Management16 min
  3. DaemonSets: Per-Node Workloads18 min
  4. Jobs and CronJobs: Batch and Scheduled Workloads19 min
  5. ConfigMaps and Secrets for Application Configuration6 min
  6. ConfigMaps: Creation, Mounting, and Live Updates18 min
  7. Secrets: Types, Encryption at Rest, and Best Practices18 min
  8. Autoscaling in Kubernetes: HPA, VPA, and Cluster Autoscaler11 min
  9. Horizontal Pod Autoscaler: Metrics-Based Scaling16 min
  10. Vertical Pod Autoscaler and Cluster Autoscaler14 min
  11. Self-Healing Deployments: ReplicaSets, Probes, and PDBs8 min
  12. ReplicaSets: Desired State and Self-Healing Mechanics14 min
  13. Liveness, Readiness, and Startup Probes17 min
  14. Pod Disruption Budgets and Voluntary Disruptions14 min
  15. Pod Scheduling: How Kubernetes Decides Where Pods Run9 min
  16. Resource Requests, Limits, and QoS Classes16 min
  17. Node Affinity and Pod Affinity/Anti-Affinity16 min
  18. Taints, Tolerations, and Node Cordoning13 min

  1. Pod-to-Pod Communication and the Networking Model23 min
  2. kube-proxy: iptables, IPVS, and Service Routing16 min
  3. Network Policies: Ingress and Egress Rules10 min
  4. Advanced Network Policy Patterns and Debugging17 min
  5. Service Types: ClusterIP, NodePort, and LoadBalancer14 min
  6. Headless Services, ExternalName, and EndpointSlices15 min
  7. Gateway API: The Future of Ingress15 min
  8. Ingress Controllers and Ingress Resources15 min
  9. CoreDNS: Service Discovery and DNS in Kubernetes10 min
  10. DNS Troubleshooting and Custom CoreDNS Configuration16 min

  1. Storage Classes and Dynamic Volume Provisioning14 min
  2. Volume Types, Access Modes, and Reclaim Policies12 min
  3. Ephemeral Volumes, Projected Volumes, and Volume Projections16 min
  4. Persistent Volumes and Persistent Volume Claims14 min
  5. Volume Snapshots, Expansion, and Cloning13 min

  1. Troubleshooting Clusters and Nodes11 min
  2. Kubelet Troubleshooting and Configuration17 min
  3. Node Resource Pressure, Eviction, and Recovery15 min
  4. Troubleshooting Cluster Components9 min
  5. etcd Troubleshooting and Cluster Recovery17 min
  6. API Server, Scheduler, and Controller Manager Debugging14 min
  7. Monitoring Cluster and Application Resources9 min
  8. Metrics Server and the Resource Metrics Pipeline16 min
  9. Troubleshooting Resource Quotas and LimitRanges16 min
  10. Container Logs and Output Streams13 min
  11. Multi-Container Logging and Ephemeral Debug Containers17 min
  12. Troubleshooting Services and Networking17 min

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