Certified Kubernetes Administrator

This learning path prepares you for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam, covering essential topics such as cluster architecture, installation, configuration, and troubleshooting.

Certifications

Get an overview of the existing Kubernetes certifications and what you need to learn for the CKA.

Create a cluster

Build a 3-node kubeadm cluster from scratch.

Workloads

Create and manage Pods, Deployments, and other workload resources.

Scheduling Pods

Learn Pod placement strategies using labels, taints, affinities and more.

Networking

Understand Pod to Pod communication, Service discovery, Ingress resources.

Storage

Understand StorageClass, PV and PVCs stateful applications.

Security

Create Network Policies and RBAC rules.

Troubleshooting

Troubleshoot clusters components, nodes, network and applications.

Operations

Perform cluster upgrade and backup/restore of etcd.

Last modified July 15, 2025: Fix: Update (db646b6b)