CKAD Course focuses on the practical skills developers need to design, build, configure, deploy, expose, monitor, and troubleshoot cloud-native applications on Kubernetes. The training follows the current CKAD domains covering application design and build, deployment, observability and maintenance, environment configuration and security, plus services and networking.
Prerequisites
- Linux command-line proficiency
- Basic Kubernetes knowledge
- Familiarity with kubectl
- Understanding of containers (Docker / OCI)
- YAML configuration basics
- Experience with at least one programming language
- Basic knowledge of CI/CD concepts
Who Should Take This Course
- Application Developers
- Cloud-Native Developers
- DevOps Engineers
- Site Reliability Engineers (SREs)
- System Administrators transitioning to Kubernetes
- Cloud Engineers
- IT professionals working with containerized applications
- Professionals preparing for CKAD certification
What You Will Learn
- Kubernetes architecture and core concepts
- Pods, ReplicaSets, and Deployments
- Multi-container pod design patterns
- Services and Ingress
- ConfigMaps and Secrets
- Resource limits and requests
- Persistent Volumes and Persistent Volume Claims
- StatefulSets
- NetworkPolicies
- Application rollouts and rollbacks
- Scaling and autoscaling workloads
- Debugging and troubleshooting with kubectl
What You Will Be Able to Do After Completing this Training
- Build and manage OCI-compliant container images
- Create Pods, Deployments, StatefulSets, Jobs, and CronJobs
- Design production-ready multi-container pods
- Configure ConfigMaps, Secrets, and environment variables
- Implement rolling updates and controlled rollbacks
- Set resource limits and autoscaling
- Use Helm and Kustomize for packaging
- Troubleshoot applications using kubectl like a pro
- Monitor cluster resource usage
- Pass the CKAD exam with confidence
