Learning Kubernetes is essential for any DevOps professional. DevOps engineers are always in demand. Currently the average Silicon Valley salary for a DevOps engineer is 20% higher than what a software engineer makes. DevOps engineers make an average of $140,000 to $200,000 annually. And One of the most in-demand skills is Kubernetes Deployment.
Kubernetes Certified Application Developer (CKAD) with Tests
16h 15m 8s
English
Paid
Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It was originally designed by Google and is now maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
After you have completed the lectures and coding exercises you will have the opportunity to complete a series of assignments that put your new skills to the test. You will be given a challenge to solve using the Kubernetes skills you have learned.
This will give you real-world experience and the chance to work with other students in the community. You will develop a Kubernetes deployment and get feedback for your work.
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Requirements:
- Basic System Administration
- Basic Application Development - Python
- Linux VMs to follow along (This is optional as labs are provided with course)
- Kubernetes Basics
Who this course is for:
- System Administrators
- Application Developers
- Those looking to get Certified on Kubernetes
What you'll learn:
- Kubernetes Certification
- Design and Deploy applications on Kubernetes Cluster
- Develop Cloud First Applications
- Secure Kubernetes cluster with Secrets and Network Policies
- Create and Schedule Jobs in Kubernetes
- Create and Configure Persistent Volumes
- Configure Readiness and Liveness Probes in a cluster
- Troubleshoot Applications Deployed using Logs
- Upgrade and Rollback Applications deployed on Kubernetes
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All Course Lessons (134)
| # | Lesson Title | Duration | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1.1. Introduction Demo | 03:23 | |
| 2 | 1.2. Kubernetes Series of Courses | 04:34 | |
| 3 | 1.4. Certification Details | 03:11 | |
| 4 | 2.1. Recap - Kubernetes Architecture | 06:19 | |
| 5 | 2.2. Docker-vs-ContainerD | 13:07 | |
| 6 | 2.3. A note on Docker deprecation | 02:13 | |
| 7 | 2.4. Recap - Pods | 09:05 | |
| 8 | 2.6. Recap - Pods with YAML | 06:50 | |
| 9 | 2.7. Recap - Demo - Creating Pods with YAML | 10:17 | |
| 10 | 2.9. Introduction to Kubernetes Practice Test | 05:46 | |
| 11 | 2.10. Demo Accessing Labs | 02:15 | |
| 12 | 2.13. Solution - Pods (optional) | 11:33 | |
| 13 | 2.15. Recap - ReplicaSets | 15:44 | |
| 14 | 2.17. Solution - ReplicaSets (optional) | 14:10 | |
| 15 | 2.18. Recap - Deployments | 04:22 | |
| 16 | 2.20. Solution - Deployments (optional) | 07:09 | |
| 17 | 2.21. Recap - Namespaces | 08:21 | |
| 18 | 2.23. Solution - Namespaces (optional) | 06:06 | |
| 19 | 2.24. Services | 13:33 | |
| 20 | 2.25. Services - Cluster IP | 03:53 | |
| 21 | 2.27. Solution - Services (optional) | 09:29 | |
| 22 | 2.30. Kubectl Explain Command | 01:51 | |
| 23 | 2.32. Solution - Imperative Commands (optional) | 13:26 | |
| 24 | 2.34. A Quick Reminder | 01:11 | |
| 25 | 3.1. Define, build and modify container images | 07:31 | |
| 26 | 3.3. Commands and Arguments in Docker | 07:18 | |
| 27 | 3.4. Commands and Arguments in Kubernetes | 02:37 | |
| 28 | 3.7. Solution - Commands and Arguments (Optional) | 19:32 | |
| 29 | 3.8. Environment Variables | 01:07 | |
| 30 | 3.9. ConfigMaps | 05:11 | |
| 31 | 3.11. Solution ConfigMaps (Optional) | 08:44 | |
| 32 | 3.12. Secrets | 05:38 | |
| 33 | 3.16. Solution - Secrets (Optional) | 09:54 | |
| 34 | 3.17. Demo Encrypting Secret Data at Rest | 18:48 | |
| 35 | 3.18. Pre-requisite - Security in Docker | 05:34 | |
| 36 | 3.19. Security Contexts | 01:44 | |
| 37 | 3.21. Solution Security Contexts | 05:11 | |
| 38 | 3.22. Resource Requirements | 14:52 | |
| 39 | 3.24. Solution Resource Requirements | 03:26 | |
| 40 | 3.25. Service Account | 14:33 | |
| 41 | 3.27. Solution Service Account | 07:19 | |
| 42 | 3.29. Taints and Tolerations | 09:41 | |
| 43 | 3.31. Solution - Taints and Tolerations (Optional) | 10:10 | |
| 44 | 3.32. Node Selectors Logging | 03:17 | |
| 45 | 3.33. Node Affinity | 06:34 | |
| 46 | 3.35. Solution - Node Affinity (Optional) | 10:14 | |
| 47 | 3.36. Taints & Tolerations vs Node Affinity | 02:30 | |
| 48 | 4.1. Multi-Container Pods | 02:16 | |
| 49 | 4.2. Multi-container Pods Design Patterns | 06:05 | |
| 50 | 4.6. Solution – Init Containers (Optional) | 07:22 | |
| 51 | 5.1. Readiness and Liveness Probes | 08:12 | |
| 52 | 5.2. Liveness Probes | 03:20 | |
| 53 | 5.4. Solution Readiness and Liveness Probes | 09:31 | |
| 54 | 5.5. Logging | 02:32 | |
| 55 | 5.7. Solution - Logging (optional) | 02:49 | |
| 56 | 5.8. Monitor and Debug Applications | 03:50 | |
| 57 | 5.10. Solution - Monitoring (optional) | 04:23 | |
| 58 | 6.1. Labels, Selectors and Annotations | 05:39 | |
| 59 | 6.3. Solution - Labels and Selectors (optional) | 05:34 | |
| 60 | 6.4. Rolling Updates & Rollbacks in Deployments | 06:33 | |
| 61 | 6.7. Solution - Rolling Updates (Optional) | 09:06 | |
| 62 | 6.8. Deployment Strategy - Blue Green | 04:35 | |
| 63 | 6.9. Deployment Strategy - Canary | 05:21 | |
| 64 | 6.11. Solution Deployment strategies | 05:50 | |
| 65 | 6.12. Jobs | 08:07 | |
| 66 | 6.13. CronJobs | 01:46 | |
| 67 | 6.15. Solution - Jobs and Cronjobs (optional) | 09:08 | |
| 68 | 7.1. Network Policies | 07:42 | |
| 69 | 7.2. Developing network policies | 10:56 | |
| 70 | 7.4. Solution - Network Policies (optional) | 14:11 | |
| 71 | 7.5. Ingress Networking | 17:36 | |
| 72 | 7.8. Solution Ingress Networking - 1 | 15:46 | |
| 73 | 7.10. Solution Ingress Networking - 2 | 14:35 | |
| 74 | 8.1. Introduction to Docker Storage | 00:55 | |
| 75 | 8.2. Storage in Docker | 12:18 | |
| 76 | 8.3. Volume Driver Plugins in Docker | 01:54 | |
| 77 | 8.4. Volumes in Kubernetes | 04:23 | |
| 78 | 8.5. Persistent Volumes | 02:56 | |
| 79 | 8.6. Persistent Volume Claims | 05:00 | |
| 80 | 8.10. Solution - Persistent Volume and Persistent Volume Claims (Optional) | 18:12 | |
| 81 | 8.12. Storage Classes | 03:58 | |
| 82 | 8.14. Why Stateful Sets | 09:28 | |
| 83 | 8.15. Stateful Sets Introduction | 02:45 | |
| 84 | 8.16. Headless Services | 07:30 | |
| 85 | 8.17. Storage in StatefulSets | 04:30 | |
| 86 | 9.1. Kubernetes Security Primitives | 03:11 | |
| 87 | 9.2. Authentication | 04:29 | |
| 88 | 9.5. KubeConfig | 08:27 | |
| 89 | 9.7. Solution KubeConfig | 08:09 | |
| 90 | 9.8. API Groups | 05:40 | |
| 91 | 9.9. Authorization | 07:31 | |
| 92 | 9.10. Role Based Access Controls | 04:24 | |
| 93 | 9.12. Solution Role Based Access Controls | 13:29 | |
| 94 | 9.13. Cluster Roles | 04:25 | |
| 95 | 9.15. Solution Cluster Roles | 11:14 | |
| 96 | 9.16. Admission Controllers | 07:55 | |
| 97 | 9.18. Solution Admission Controllers | 06:42 | |
| 98 | 9.19. Validating and Mutating Admission Controllers | 10:09 | |
| 99 | 9.21. Solution Validating and Mutating Admission Controllers | 07:40 | |
| 100 | 9.22. API Versions | 08:48 | |
| 101 | 9.23. API Deprecations | 13:46 | |
| 102 | 9.25. Solution API VersionsDeprecations | 07:19 | |
| 103 | 9.26. Custom Resource Definition | 11:02 | |
| 104 | 9.28. Custom Controllers | 03:58 | |
| 105 | 9.29. Operator Framework | 03:00 | |
| 106 | 10.1. Helm Introduction | 06:23 | |
| 107 | 10.2. Install Helm | 01:30 | |
| 108 | 10.4. Solution Install Helm | 02:11 | |
| 109 | 10.5. Helm Concepts | 06:10 | |
| 110 | 10.7. Solution Helm Concepts | 04:33 | |
| 111 | 11.1. Kustomize Problem Statement & idealogy | 08:04 | |
| 112 | 11.2. Kustomize vs Helm | 04:35 | |
| 113 | 11.3. InstallationSetup | 01:07 | |
| 114 | 11.4. kustomization.yaml file | 03:55 | |
| 115 | 11.5. Kustomize Output | 02:33 | |
| 116 | 11.6. Kustomize ApiVersion & Kind | 00:23 | |
| 117 | 11.7. Managing Directories | 06:19 | |
| 118 | 11.8. Managing Directories Demo | 09:22 | |
| 119 | 11.10. Common Transformers | 03:28 | |
| 120 | 11.11. Image Transformers | 02:32 | |
| 121 | 11.12. Transformers Demo | 11:32 | |
| 122 | 11.14. Patches Intro | 08:31 | |
| 123 | 11.15. Different Types of Patches | 01:14 | |
| 124 | 11.16. Patches Dictionary | 06:03 | |
| 125 | 11.17. Patches list | 06:22 | |
| 126 | 11.19. Overlays | 05:42 | |
| 127 | 11.21. Components | 08:45 | |
| 128 | 13.1. Time Management | 06:10 | |
| 129 | 14.3. Solution Lightning Lab1 | 22:04 | |
| 130 | 14.5. Solution Lightning Lab - 2 | 14:41 | |
| 131 | 15.2. Mock Exam -1 (Solution) | 19:58 | |
| 132 | 15.4. Mock Exam -2 (Solution) | 17:51 | |
| 133 | 15.5. Bonus Lecture Conclusion | 03:04 | |
| 134 | 15.7. What's Next | 03:01 |
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Frequently asked questions
What are the prerequisites for enrolling in this course?
The course assumes a foundational understanding of Docker, as it covers topics like Docker vs ContainerD and security in Docker. Familiarity with YAML is beneficial since the course includes creating Pods with YAML. Basic knowledge of the Kubernetes architecture and concepts like Pods, ReplicaSets, and Deployments will help, although some recap lessons are also provided.
What will I build or accomplish by the end of this course?
By the end of the course, you will have experience creating and managing resources within Kubernetes, such as Pods, ReplicaSets, and Deployments. You'll also learn to handle ConfigMaps, Secrets, and Resource Requirements, enabling you to deploy and configure applications in a Kubernetes cluster effectively.
Who is the target audience for this course?
The course is designed for DevOps professionals and engineers who want to gain expertise in Kubernetes deployment, a critical skill in the DevOps field. It is also suitable for software engineers transitioning into DevOps roles, as it prepares participants for the Kubernetes Certified Application Developer (CKAD) certification.
How does the depth and scope of this course compare to other Kubernetes courses?
This course offers a detailed exploration of Kubernetes, focusing on practical skills for deploying and managing applications. It includes practice tests and solutions for various Kubernetes features like Pods, Deployments, and Services, which may not be covered as extensively in more introductory courses.
Does the course cover all aspects of Kubernetes, or are there any notable exclusions?
While the course covers a wide range of Kubernetes topics, including Pods, Services, and Deployments, it does not delve into advanced Kubernetes networking or persistent storage solutions. The focus is on preparing for the CKAD certification, with practical exercises and solutions for core Kubernetes concepts.
What is the expected time commitment for completing this course?
The course comprises 134 lessons, with the first 60 covering a variety of foundational topics. Given the practical exercises and practice tests, learners should allocate additional time for hands-on practice and review, especially if aiming to attain the CKAD certification.
How will the skills learned in this course carry over to other career opportunities?
The skills acquired in this course are valuable for any DevOps role, as Kubernetes is a key technology in modern application deployment. Understanding Kubernetes can enhance your ability to manage cloud-native applications and improve your employability in high-demand roles within technology companies globally.