Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

Module 1: Introduction
– Course Introduction
– Certification Details
– CNCF Certification

Module 2: Core Concepts
– Kubernetes API Primitives
– Creating Pods
– Recap – ReplicaSets
– Recap – Deployments
– Recap – Namespaces
– Basic Container Configuration

Module 3: Configuration
– Environment Variables
– ConfigMaps
– SecurityContexts
– Resource Requirements
– Secrets
– Service Accounts

Module 4: Multi-Container Pods
– Understand multi-container pods

Module 5: Observability
– Liveness and Readiness Probes
– Container Logging
– Monitoring Applications
– Debugging

Module 6: Pod Design
– Labes, Selectors and Annotations
– Updating a Deployment
– Rolling Updates and Rollbacks
– Jobs
– CronJobs

Module 7: Service and Networking
– Services
– Network Policies
– Developing network policies
– Ingress Networking

Module 8: State Persistence
– Volumes in Kubernetes
– PersistentVolumes and PersistentVolumeClaims
– Storage Classes
– Stateful Sets
– Headless Service
– Storage in StatefulSets