Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) E-Learning Training

The Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) E-Learning Training is designed for developers and IT professionals who want to build, deploy, and manage applications in Kubernetes environments.

Kubernetes is the industry standard for container orchestration and a key component of modern cloud-native architectures. This training teaches you how to design and deploy scalable applications using Kubernetes best practices.

You will start with core Kubernetes concepts and container fundamentals. Then, you will work with Pods, Deployments, and Services to deploy and manage applications effectively.

Key topics include:

• Managing ConfigMaps and Secrets
• Working with storage and persistent volumes
• Troubleshooting Kubernetes applications
• Resource management and scheduling
• Integrating CI/CD pipelines with Kubernetes

This course is aligned with the CKAD certification exam and provides practical exercises to help you succeed.

What You Will Learn

• Understand Kubernetes architecture
• Deploy and manage containers
• Work with Pods, Deployments, and Services
• Manage ConfigMaps and Secrets
• Handle storage and volumes
• Scale and monitor applications
• Troubleshoot Kubernetes environments
• Integrate CI/CD pipelines

Demo Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) Training

Course Outcome

Kubernetes Application Developer: Workload and Container Image Fundamentals

Course: 1 Hour, 7 Minutes

• Course Overview
• OCI‑Compliant Images Using Dockerfile Best Practices
• Creating Multistage Builds and Slimming Images
• Pushing and Scanning Images in a Registry
• Choose the Right Workload Resources
• Implementing Rolling Updates with Deployments
• Multicontainer Pod Patterns
• Deploying a Sidecar Logging Pattern
• Volumes in Pods
• Creating a PVC and Mounting It in a Deployment
• Course Summary

Kubernetes Application Developer: Application Configuration and Security Fundamentals

Course: 58 Minutes

• Course Overview
• ConfigMap and Environment Variable Management
• Creating and Mounting ConfigMaps
• Secret Management
• Encrypting Secrets at Rest
• SecurityContexts and Pod Security Standards
• Configuring ServiceAccounts and RBAC for Applications
• The Downward API and Dynamic Config
• Implementing a Live Config Reload Pattern
• Course Summary

Kubernetes Application Developer: Observability, Logging, and Probes

Course: 58 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Kubernetes Probes
• Implementing Readiness and Liveness Probes
• Using Startup Probes for Slow Boot Apps
• Container Logging in Kubernetes
• Using kubectl logs and Events to Debug Apps
• Deploying and Using the metrics-server
• Prometheus Basics for Kubernetes
• Instrumenting Custom Application Metrics for Prometheus
• Course Summary0

Kubernetes Application Developer: Resource Limits, Scheduling, and Autoscaling

Course: 1 Hour, 3 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Understanding Resource Requests and Limits
• Setting Requests and Limits in Pods
• Resource Quotas and Limit Ranges
• Scheduling with Node Selectors and Affinity
• Node Selector and Affinity Rules in Action
• Taints and Tolerations Explained
• Tainting Nodes and Applying Tolerations
• Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) Basics
• Implementing HPA in a Live App
• Course Summary

Kubernetes Application Developer: Services, Ingress, and Networking Fundamentals

Course: 1 Hour, 11 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Service Types Explained
• Creating ClusterIP and NodePort Services
• LoadBalancer Services and ExternalTrafficPolicy
• Headless Services and StatefulSets
• Ingress Controllers and Resources
• Deploying NGINX Ingress and Basic Routing
• Advanced Ingress: TLS, Host, and Path Rules
• Network Policies Overview
• Restricting Traffic with Network Policies
• Service Discovery Via DNS & Env Vars
• Course Summary

Kubernetes Application Developer: Deployment Strategies and Package Management

Course: 1 Hour, 13 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Blue/Green Deployment Pattern
• Implementing Blue/Green with Service Selector Switch
• Canary Deployments and Progressive Delivery
• Implementing Canary Rollout with Percentage-Based Traffic
• Managing Rollbacks and Rollout History
• Performing a Rollback After Failed Rollout
• Helm Basics and Chart Structure
• Installing and Upgrading an App with Helm
• Kustomize for Overlay Management
• Implementing Kustomize Overlays for Dev and Prod Environments
• Course Summary

Kubernetes Application Developer: Stateful Applications and Data Persistence

Course: 57 Minutes

• Course Overview
• StatefulSet Fundamentals & Ordinals
• Deploying a MySQL StatefulSet with volumeClaimTemplates
• Resizing Persistent Volumes & File Systems
• Expanding a PVC for a Stateful Workload
• Jobs & CronJobs for Batch Processing
• Automating Nightly Backups with CronJob
• Pod Disruption Budgets (PDB) for Stateful Apps
• Readiness & Startup Probes for Databases
• Course Summary

Kubernetes Application Developer: APIs, Custom Resources, and Operator Patterns

Course: 1 Hour, 4 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Power-User kubectl: JSONPath & Patching
• Efficient Debugging with kubectl & jq
• Accessing the Kubernetes API with client-go
• Creating Pods Programmatically in Go
• Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs)
• Defining & Applying a CRD
• Operator Pattern Fundamentals
• Scaffolding an Operator with Kubebuilder
• Managing API Versions & Deprecations
• Course Summary

Kubernetes Application Developer: Monitoring, Alerting, and Performance Optimization

Course: 1 Hour, 6 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Prometheus Operator & kube-prometheus-stack
• Installing kube-prometheus-stack via Helm
• Grafana Dashboards for CKAD Metrics
• Building a Custom Grafana Dashboard
• Alertmanager Routing & Notification Best Practices
• Sending Alerts to Slack via Webhook
• Profiling with kubectl top, cAdvisor & kube-state-metrics
• Distributed Tracing with OpenTelemetry & Jaeger
• Course Summary

Kubernetes Application Developer: Batch and Event-Driven Workloads

Course: 1 Hour, 5 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Job Basics and Retry Strategy
• Creating a Single-Run Job with Retries
• Parallel and Indexed Jobs
• Implementing an Indexed Parallel Job
• CronJob Features and Concurrency Policy
• Managing CronJob Suspension and History Limits
• Cleaning Up with TTLSecondsAfterFinished
• Event-Driven Autoscaling with KEDA
• Triggering Jobs from Queue Depth via KEDA
• Course Summary

Kubernetes Application Developer: Debugging and Troubleshooting Applications

Course: 55 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Pod Lifecycle & Failure States
• Diagnosing CrashLoopBackOff with Logs & Events
• ImagePull Errors & Registry Auth
• Fixing ImagePullBackOff via ImagePullSecret
• Ephemeral Containers & kubectl debug
• Attaching an Ephemeral Container to Inspect Environment
• Port-forwarding & Local Debugging Techniques
• Live Debug of Service via Port-forward and cURL
• Course Summary

Kubernetes Application Developer: Advanced Security Hardening and Pod Security Admission

Course: 1 Hour

• Course Overview
• Pod Security Admission & Standards
• Enforcing Restricted Policy in a Namespace
• Seccomp & AppArmor Profiles
• Applying a Localhost seccomp Profile to a Pod
• Image Signing & Verification with Cosign
• Verifying Image Signatures via ImagePolicyWebhook
• Advanced RBAC Aggregation & Impersonation
• Creating Aggregated Roles & Scoped SA
• Course Summary

Kubernetes Application Developer: Advanced Scheduling and Scalability Patterns

Course: 1 Hour, 43 Minutes

• Course Overview
• PriorityClasses and Preemption Explained
• Creating PriorityClasses and Observing Preemption
• Topology Spread Constraints
• Zone-Aware Distribution with Spread Constraints
• Horizontal vs. Vertical Pod Autoscalers
• Installing and Testing the Vertical Pod Autoscaler
• Cluster Autoscaler Concepts
• Descheduler for Post-Deployment Rebalancing
• Running Descheduler as a CronJob
• Course Summary

Kubernetes Application Developer: GitOps & Continuous Delivery on Kubernetes

Course: 1 Hour, 36 Minutes

• Course Overview
• GitOps Principles and Workflow Overview
• Installing Argo CD on a Cluster
• Syncing a Sample App with Argo CD
• Health Checks and Automated Rollbacks
• Git Revert Triggering Automatic Rollback
• Introducing Flux and Reconciliation Loops
• Bootstrap Flux and Deploy via Kustomize
• Multi-Environment Promotion Strategies
• Image Update Automation and PR‑Based Approval
• Course Summary

Kubernetes Application Developer: Policy-Driven Governance and Admission Control

Course: 1 Hour, 6 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Admission Controller Fundamentals
• Creating a Simple Mutating Webhook
• OPA Gatekeeper Architecture and Constraints
• Enforcing Resource Limits with Gatekeeper
• Kyverno Policy Language and Capabilities
• Blocking Privileged Pods with Kyverno
• Rego Policy and Unit Test Writing
• Validating Manifests Locally with Conftest
• Continuous Compliance Reporting and Auditing
• Course Summary

Kubernetes Application Developer: Local Development, Testing, and Continuous Integration

Course: 1 Hour, 25 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Creating a Disposable Cluster with kind
• Choose the Right Local Cluster in Minikube and Kind
• Enabling Add‑Ons in minikube
• Live Coding with Skaffold Dev Loop
• Configuring Skaffold Hot‑Reload with Kaniko Build
• Tilt for Local Microservice Stacks
• Performing Multi‑Service Dev with Tilt and Live Updates
• Integration Test Writing with kube-test-harness
• Running Go Integration Tests Against kind in CI
• Helm Chart Testing and Linting
• Building Images, Linting Helm, and Deploying to kind in the CI Pipeline
• Cleanup and Resource Optimization in CI Clusters
• Course Summary