CKAD Certified Kubernetes Application Developer Crash Course

About this course

If you are passionate about Kubernetes and want to take your career to next level, then taking Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) certification will help to achieve the goal.The role of Certified Kubernetes Application Developer is declare application resources and use elemental primitives to build, monitor, and troubleshoot scalable applications and tools in Kubernetes.This learning path is designed in such a way that covers all important modules in detailed manner with perfect combination of theoretical concepts and practical exercises will help you to get prepare for CKAD certification. This certification consist of seven modules:Core Concepts - 13%Multi-container pods - 10%Pod design - 20%Configuration - 18%Observability - 18%Services and networking - 13%State persistence - 8%In Core concepts modules, you will learn about pod(the basic component of Kubernetes), namespaces(virtual cluster), services(exposing objects to external world) and much more.In Multi-container pods modules, you will learn how to create and run multiple containers inside single pod. Also learn how to create communication among the containers. Also cover the Concepts of sidecar and adapter pattern.In Pod design module, you will learn about labels, replica controller, replica set and deployment. Then how to create high availability and auto scaling applications, Then how to do easy update and quick rollback with different deployment strategies. In Configuration module, you will learn and create config-map and secrets to pass environment variables, sensitive data and much more into running pod. Also learn about service account.In Observability module, you will learn how to check and monitor health of running pods using Liveness and readiness probes.

Course objectives

• Prepare for the CKAD certification
• Enhance practical skills in building scalable applications
• Gain knowledge of deployment strategies and service accounts