CKAD Practice Exercises
A comprehensive set of hands-on exercises to prepare for the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) exam.
39 Exercises
About the exercises
This course provides a deep dive into the practical aspects of Kubernetes application development, covering all domains of the CKAD exam. Through scenario-based exercises, you will gain hands-on experience with Dockerfiles, Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, Probes, and more, ensuring you are well-prepared for the certification.
Exercise Content
Application Design and Build
Application Deployment
Application Observability
- Configuring Liveness Probes to Restart Unhealthy Containers
- Configuring Readiness Probes to Manage Application Traffic
- Using Startup Probes for Slow-Starting Applications
- Accessing and Streaming Container Logs
- Using a Logging Sidecar Container
- Debugging a Pod in a Pending State
- Debugging a Crashed Pod Using Logs and Events
- Using Ephemeral Containers for Live Debugging
Application Environment, Configuration, and Security
- Creating ConfigMaps from Literals and Files
- Injecting ConfigMap Data as Environment Variables
- Mounting a ConfigMap as a Volume
- Managing Application Secrets
- Using Secrets as Environment Variables and Files
- Understanding and Assigning ServiceAccounts to Pods
- Configuring Resource Requests and Limits
- Understanding Quality of Service (QoS) Classes
- Interacting with Custom Resources (CRDs)
Services & Networking
- Exposing a Deployment Internally with a ClusterIP Service
- Exposing a Service Externally with a NodePort Service
- Creating a Headless Service for Stateful Apps
- Creating a Default Deny Network Policy
- Allowing Traffic Between Pods Using Network Policies
- Controlling Ingress Traffic from Specific Namespaces
- Creating a Basic Ingress Resource for a Service
- Configuring Host-Based Routing with Ingress
- Configuring Path-Based Routing with Ingress
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