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Kubernetes Fundamentals (LFS258-JP) + CKA-JP Exam Bundle

Who Is It For

This course is ideal for those wishing to manage a containerized application infrastructure. This includes existing IT administrators, as well as those looking to start a cloud career.
This certification is for Kubernetes administrators, cloud administrators and other IT professionals who manage Kubernetes instances.
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What You’ll Learn

This course will teach you how to use the container management platform used by companies like Google to manage their application infrastructure. You will learn how to install and configure a production-grade Kubernetes cluster, from network configuration to upgrades to making deployments available via services. The course also distills key principles, such as pods, deployments, replicasets, and services, and will give you enough information so that you can start using Kubernetes on your own.
CKA was created by The Linux Foundation and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a part of their ongoing effort to help develop the Kubernetes ecosystem. The exam is an online, proctored, performance-based test that requires solving multiple tasks from a command line running Kubernetes.
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What It Demonstrates

This course is designed as preparation for the Kubernetes Certified Administrator (CKA) Exam, and will substantially increase students' ability to become certified.
A certified K8s administrator has demonstrated the ability to do basic installation as well as configuring and managing production-grade Kubernetes clusters. They will have an understanding of key concepts such as Kubernetes networking, storage, security, maintenance, logging and monitoring, application lifecycle, troubleshooting, API object primitives and the ability to establish basic use-cases for end users.
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Course Outline
Chapter 1: Course Introduction
Chapter 2. Basics of Kubernetes
Chapter 3. Installation and Configuration
Chapter 4: Kubernetes Architecture
Chapter 5: APIs and Access
Chapter 6. OPI Objects
Chapter 7. Managing State with Deployments
Chapter 8. Services
Chapter 9. Volumes and Data
Chapter 10. Ingress
Chapter 11. Scheduling
Chapter 12. Logging and Troubleshooting
Chapter 13. Custom Resource Definitions
Chapter 14. Helm
Chapter 15. Security
Chapter 16. High Availability

Domains & Competencies
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Storage10%
Implement storage classes and dynamic volume provisioning
Configure volume types, access modes and reclaim policies
Manage persistent volumes and persistent volume claims
Troubleshooting30%
Troubleshoot clusters and nodes
Troubleshoot cluster components
Monitor cluster and application resource usage
Manage and evaluate container output streams
Troubleshoot services and networking
Workloads & Scheduling15%
Understand application deployments and how to perform rolling update and rollbacks
Use ConfigMaps and Secrets to configure applications
Configure workload autoscaling
Understand the primitives used to create robust, self-healing, application deployments
Configure Pod admission and scheduling (limits, node affinity, etc.)
Cluster Architecture, Installation & Configuration25%
Manage role based access control (RBAC)
Prepare underlying infrastructure for installing a Kubernetes cluster
Create and manage Kubernetes clusters using kubeadm
Manage the lifecycle of Kubernetes clusters
Implement and configure a highly-available control plane
Use Helm and Kustomize to install cluster components
Understand extension interfaces (CNI, CSI, CRI, etc.)
Understand CRDs, install and configure operators
Services & Networking20%
Understand connectivity between Pods
Define and enforce Network Policies
Use ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer service types and endpoints
Use the Gateway API to manage Ingress traffic
Know how to use Ingress controllers and Ingress resources
Understand and use CoreDNS

The Linux Foundation worked with industry experts and the Linux kernel community to identify the core domains and the critical skills, knowledge and competencies applicable to each certification. Performance-based exams were then developed based on the competencies that were identified.
Exam Details & Resources
This exam is an online, performance-based test that requires solving multiple issues from a command line running Kubernetes.
Candidates have 2 hours to complete the tasks.

Candidates who register for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam will have 2 attempts (per exam registration) to an exam simulator, provided by Killer.sh.  

The exam is based on Kubernetes v1.31

Prerequisites
Before starting this course, you should be familiar with:

For hands-on lab exercises, access to a Linux server or Linux desktop/laptop is required. Access to a public cloud provider, or VirtualBox on your machine is also needed. Lab exercises in this course have been tested in a GCP environment.

If using a cloud provider like GCP or AWS, you should be able to complete the lab exercises using the free tier or credits provided to you. However, you may incur charges if you exceed the credits initially allocated by the cloud provider.

There are no pre-requisites for this exam.