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Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), 3rd Edition
Published by Pearson (February 28, 2025)
ISBN-13: 9780135375105
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Get the edge you need to successfully study for and pass the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam. This course acts as a complete study resource to help you build skills as you work your way through the course. Explore each exam objective on the CKA exam and learn how to build, run, and manage Kubernetes clusters. Expert trainer and author Sander van Vugt gives you hands-on labs to work with Kubernetes, so you have the opportunity to test your skills. The course then ends with a sample exam, allowing you to practice before taking the real thing.
Experienced trainer and author Sander van Vugt introduces containers and Kubernetes, and moves through the process of creation, managing, and storing applications before providing labs on setting up and managing clusters, and how to troubleshoot Kubernetes applications and cluster nodes. Sander shows you how to manage deployments, services, ingress, setting up storage, and walks through key troubleshooting scenarios.
Module 1: Building a Kubernetes Cluster
Lesson 1: Understanding Kubernetes Architecture
Lesson 2: Creating a Kubernetes Cluster with kubeadm
Module 2: Running Applications
Lesson 3: Deploying Kubernetes Applications
Lesson 4: Managing Storage
Lesson 5: Managing Application Access
Module 3: Managing Kubernetes Clusters
Lesson 6: Managing Clusters
Lesson 7: Performing Node Maintenance Tasks
Lesson 8: Managing Scheduling
Lesson 9: Networking
Lesson 10: Managing Security Settings
Lesson 11: Logging, Monitoring, and Troubleshooting
Module 4: Practice Exams
Lesson 12: Practice CKA Exam 1
Lesson 13: Practice CKA Exam 2
Sander van Vugt has many years of experience working with, writing about, and teaching Linux and Open Source topics. He is the author of the best-selling Red Hat RHCSA Cert Guide and the Red Hat RHCSA Complete Video Course along with many other titles on topics that include RHCE, Bash, Kubernetes, Ansible and more. Sander also works as a Linux instructor, teaching on-site and online classes for customers around the world.