Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) - Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Curriculum

Module 1: 25% - Cluster Architecture, Installation & Configuration

• Manage role based access control (RBAC)
• Use Kubeadm to install a basic cluster
• Manage a highly-available Kubernetes cluster
• Provision underlying infrastructure to deploy a Kubernetes cluster
• Perform a version upgrade on a Kubernetes cluster using Kubead
• Implement backup and restore

Module 2: 15% - Workloads & Scheduling

• Understand deployments and how to perform rolling update and rollbacks
• Use ConfigMaps and Secrets to configure applications
• Know how to scale applications
• Understand the primitives used to create robust, self-healing, application deployments
• Understand how resource limits can affect Pod scheduling
• Awareness of manifest management and common templating tools

Module 3: 20% - Services & Networking

• Understand host networking configuration on the cluster nodes
• Understand connectivity between Pods
• Understand ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer service types and endpoints
• Know how to use Ingress controllers and Ingress resources
• Know how to configure and use CoreDNS
• Choose an appropriate container network interface plugin

Module 4: 10% - Storage

• Understand storage classes, persistent volumes
• Understand volume mode, access modes and reclaim policies for volumes
• Understand persistent volume claims primitive
• Know how to configure applications with persistent storage

Module 5: 30% - Troubleshooting

• Evaluate cluster and node logging
• Understand how to monitor applications
• Manage container standout & stderr logs
• Troubleshoot application failure
• Troubleshoot cluster component failure
• Troubleshoot networking