CKAD

CNCF Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

CKAD Curriculum until 2021-09-20

Core Concepts - 13%

kubernetes API Primitives
Create and configure basic Pods

Configuration - 18%

ConfigMaps
SecurityContexts
Secrets
ServiceAccounts

Multi-Container Pods - 10%

Multi-Container Pod design patterns

Observability - 18%

LivenessProbes and ReadinessProbes
Logging
How to monitor applications in Kubernetes
Debugging in Kubernetes

Pod Design - 20%

How to use Labels, Selectors, and Annotations.
Deployments and how to perform rolling updates.
How to perform rollbacks
Jobs and CronJobs.

Services & Networking - 13%

State Persistence - 8%

Volumes
Persistent Volumes
Persistent Volumes Claim