Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Exercises

Overview

A set of exercies to prepare for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Program.

The Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) program was created by The Linux Foundation and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a part of their ongoing effort to help develop the Kubernetes ecosystem.

Note that the Kubernetes v1.14 is used for the excercises.

Domains & Competencies

The CKA Certification exam includes these general domains and their weights on the exam:

• Application Lifecycle Management – 8%
• Installation, Configuration & Validation – 12%
• Core Concepts – 19%
• Networking – 11%
• Scheduling – 5%
• Security – 12%
• Cluster Maintenance – 11%
• Logging / Monitoring – 5%
• Storage – 7%
• Troubleshooting – 10%

References

Tips

• Be familiar with systemd. A good reference is here.