Kubernetes CKA Prep Course for Administrators 🚀

Lean Kubernetes and prepare to pass the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) examination. This course is designed to provide a deep, practical understanding of Kubernetes administration, from foundational concepts to advanced troubleshooting.

💻 All commands and code from the course (link will work soon): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/prepare-for-the-kubernetes-administrator-certification-and-pass

Course developed by @beau

🏗️ The Linux Foundation provided a grant to make this course possible.

⭐️ Course Contents ⭐️
⌨️ 0:00:00 Introduction

⌨️ 0:04:17 Kubernetes Fundamentals and Lab
- Understanding the Kubernetes Architecture
- Core Kubernetes Objects
- Setting Up Your CKA Practice Environment

⌨️ 0:20:03 Cluster Architecture, Installation & Configuration
- Bootstrapping a Multi-Node Cluster with kubeadm
- Managing the Cluster Lifecycle
- Implementing a Highly-Available (HA) Control Plane
- Managing Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
- Application Management with Helm and Kustomize
- Extending Kubernetes

⌨️ 0:53:17 Workloads & Scheduling
- Mastering Deployments
- Configuring Applications with ConfigMaps and Secrets
- Implementing Workload Autoscaling
- Advanced Pod and Container Configuration
- Advanced Scheduling

⌨️ 1:23:58 Services & Networking
- Pod-to-Pod Connectivity
- Kubernetes Services
- Ingress and the Gateway API
- Network Policies
- CoreDNS

⌨️ 1:41:39 Storage
- Volumes, PersistentVolumes (PV), and PersistentVolumeClaims (PVC)
- Volume Configuration
- StorageClasses and Dynamic Provisioning

⌨️ 1:53:25 Troubleshooting
- The Troubleshooting Methodology
- Troubleshooting Applications and Pods
- Troubleshooting Cluster and Nodes
- Troubleshooting Cluster Components
- Troubleshooting Services and Networking
- Monitoring Cluster and Application Resource Usage

⌨️ 2:02:50 Conclusion