Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

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Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Prepare for the Kubernetes Administrators certification with live practice tests right in your browser, with no extra hassle.

Mumshad Mannambeth

Founder & CEO, KodeKloud

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

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What you’ll learn

Kubernetes architecture and components
Installation and setup of a Kubernetes cluster
Kubernetes API and Kubernetes objects
Deploy and scale applications in Kubernetes
Configure and manage Kubernetes networking
Kubernetes storage options and management
Kubernetes scheduling and resource allocation
Kubernetes troubleshooting and debugging
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Description

Kubernetes is one of the highest trending technology in Cloud Computing as of today. Kubernetes had the fastest growth in job searches, over 173% from a year before, as reported recently by a survey conducted by Indeed.

With our course from KodeKloud, you will be able to learn, practice, and get certified on Kubernetes with hands-on labs right in your browser, with no extra hassle.

Why You Should Learn Kubernetes

Having a CKA Certification is essential for any DevOps professional, and 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 Administration.

What Is Kubernetes?

Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It was originally designed by Google and is now maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

This Kubernetes certification course helps you gain the knowledge required to design and deploy cloud-native applications on a Kubernetes cluster. A series of well-designed lectures with animation and illustrations help you understand complex concepts easily.

Practice Kubernetes With Our CKA Certification Course

Lectures alone won’t help you clear the CKA certification course. The Kubernetes Certification is a practical hands-on exam that provides you with the necessary experience to properly learn Kubernetes. Our coding quizzes can be accessed right in your browser without having to set up any lab environment yourself. We validate your work and give you feedback instantly. You can even preview a few lab exercises for Free!!

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 to your work.

Join our Community!

Once you enroll in the CKA certification course, you will get access to our community of teachers and learners on Slack where we discuss important topics, tips, and tricks to pass the exam. This is a great place for you to clear your doubts and get answers to your questions instantly.

Sign Up For Our CKA Certification Course Today!

This course is the best way to get Certified in Kubernetes (CKA) for an Absolute Beginner.

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Legal Notice:

Kubernetes and the Kubernetes logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of The Linux Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. The Linux Foundation and other parties may also have trademark rights in other terms used herein. This course is not certified, accredited, affiliated with, nor endorsed by Kubernetes or The Linux Foundation.

Course Update History

April 10, 2026 - Lab environment upgrade to 1.35v
Sept 11, 2025 – Videos Updated
May 26, 2025 – Lab environment upgrade to 1.33v
Feb 26, 2025 - Lab environment upgrade to 1.32v
Jan 27, 2025 - Two new sections (Helm Basics and Kustomize Basics) added
Oct 29, 2024 - Lab environment upgrade to 1.31v
July 15, 2024 - Lab environment upgrade to 1.30v
Feb 17, 2024 – Lab environment upgrade to 1.29v
June 15, 2023 – Lab environment upgrade to 1.27v
Feb 2, 2023 – Lab environment upgrade to 1.26v
Oct 10, 2022 – Lab environment upgrade to 1.24v
Sept 2, 2022 – New lab on etcd added
May 15, 2022 – Mock Exam solution videos updated
May 1, 2022 – Lab environment upgrade to 1.23v
Oct 20, 2021 – Lab environment upgrade to 1.22v
May 10, 2021 – Lab environment upgrade to 1.20v
Aug 24, 2020 – New updates. Lab environment upgrades to v1.19New lectures Storage Section, Troubleshooting Section, kubectl apply, and Solution videos along with labs were added. Updated Kubernetes Imperative Commands Lab.
Jun 16, 2020 – Lab environment upgrade to v1.18
Dec 3, 2019 – New labs added
Jul 5, 2019 – New Mock Exam to the Kubernetes Certification Courses added
Jun 7, 2019 – New lectures on Practice Imperative Commands, Multi Container Pods, and Init Containers, along with labs, were added
May 21, 2019 – Lab Updates and fixes

Prerequisites for this course

Students should have a foundational understanding of Docker, basic knowledge of Linux, and familiarity with the YAML language.

About the instructor

Mumshad Mannambeth, Founder and CEO of KodeKloud, is renowned for revolutionizing online learning in DevOps, Cloud Computing, and Automation.

Mumshad has also worked for Dell EMC, he held various roles including Solutions Architect/Developer and Storage Operations Specialist, where he specialized in storage automation and cloud deployment solutions. His contributions in application modernization and cloud migration are notable.

Mumshad has led teams in APAC, focusing on DevOps and Cloud Automation. His expertise in designing and deploying applications on Microsoft Azure and developing CI/CD pipelines has been pivotal in his professional journey.

He's widely recognized as a Knowledge Sharing Author and has been honored with Excellence@EMC awards in multiple categories.

Mumshad Mannambeth's blend of technical expertise and educational innovation has made him a popular figure in the tech community, and his work at KodeKloud continues to impact and upskill engineers globally.

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Introduction

Topics

Lesson Content

Module Content

Course Introduction03:03

Certification02:58

Discount & Certification Details

How to Reach Out to KodeKloud and Engage with the Community

Core Concepts

Topics

Lesson Content

Module Content

Core Concepts - Section Introduction00:31

Cluster Architecture08:48

Docker-vs-ContainerD12:58

A Note on Docker Deprecation02:13

etcd for Beginners07:02

etcd in Kubernetes03:14

etcd – Commands (Optional)

Kube API Server04:51

Kube Controller Manager04:15

Kube Scheduler03:53

Kubelet01:42

Kube Proxy03:41

Pods09:04

Pods With YAML06:44

Demo - Pods With YAML06:17

Practice Test Introduction05:45

Lab - Pods

Lab Solution - Pods (optional)11:32

ReplicaSets16:09

Lab - ReplicaSets

Lab Solution - ReplicaSets (optional)14:09

Deployments04:21

Certification Tip!

Lab- Deployments

Lab Solution: Deployment(optional)07:08

Services13:33

Services Cluster IP04:02

Services - Loadbalancer03:42

Lab - Services

Lab Solution: Services (optional)09:28

Namespaces08:23

Lab - Namespaces

Solution: Namespaces (optional)05:03

Imperative vs Declarative13:06

Certification Tips - Imperative Commands With Kubectl

Kubectl Explain Command01:51

Lab - Imperative Commands

Lab Solution: Imperative Commands (optional)13:25

Kubectl Apply Command04:38

A Quick Reminder01:10

Notes available at KodeKloud Notes

Reference Notes for lectures and labs

Scheduling

Topics

Lesson Content

Module Content

Scheduling - Section Introduction00:54

Manual Scheduling02:31

Lab - Manual Scheduling

Lab Solution: Manual Scheduling (optional)06:53

Labels and Selectors05:47

Lab - Labels and Selectors

Lab Solution: Labels and Selectors05:34

Taints and Tolerations09:42

Lab - Taints and Tolerations

Lab Solution - Taints and Toleration (Optional)10:10

Node Selectors03:19

Node Affinity07:16

Lab - Node Affinity

Lab Solution - Node Affinity (Optional)10:13

Taints and Tolerations vs Node Affinity02:32

Resource Requirements14:51

A Quick Note on editing Pods and Deployments

Lab - Resource Limits

Lab Solution: Resource Limits05:22

DaemonSets04:08

Lab - DaemonSets

Lab Solution: DaemonSets (optional)05:45

Static Pods08:45

Lab - Static Pods

Lab Solution - Static Pods (Optional)14:36

🆕 Priority Classes06:13

🆕 Lab - Priority Classes

Multiple Schedulers09:32

Lab - Multiple Schedulers

Lab Solution - Multiple Scheduler06:36

Configuring Scheduler Profiles09:53

References

🆕 (2025 Updates) Admission Controllers07:54

🆕 (2025 Updates) Lab - Admission Controllers

🆕 (2025 Updates) Lab Solution: Admission Controllers06:41

🆕 (2025 Updates) Validating and Mutating Admission Controllers10:08

🆕 (2025 Updates) Lab - Validating and Mutating Admission Controllers

🆕 (2025 Updates) Lab Solution: Validating and Mutating Admission Controllers07:39

Logging & Monitoring

Topics

Lesson Content

Module Content

Logging and Monitoring - Section Introduction00:29

Monitoring Cluster Components03:50

Lab - Monitoring Cluster Components

Lab Solution: Monitor Cluster Components04:22

Managing Application Logs02:16

Lab - Managing Application Logs

Lab Solution: Logging : (Optional)02:48

Application Lifecycle Management

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Lesson Content

Module Content

Application Lifecycle Management - Section Introduction00:42

Rolling Updates and Rollbacks06:43

Lab - Rolling Updates and Rollbacks

Lab Solution: Rolling update09:05

Configure Applications

Commands and Arguments in Docker07:20

Commands and Arguments in Kubernetes02:39

Lab - Commands and Arguments

Lab Solution - Commands and Arguments (Optional)19:32

Configuring Environment Variables in Applications01:06

Configuring ConfigMaps in Applications05:10

Lab - Env Variables

Lab Solution - Env Variables (Optional)09:00

Secrets05:37

Lab - Secrets

Additional Resource

Lab Solution - Secrets (Optional)09:53

Demo: Encrypting Secret Data at Rest18:47

A note on Secrets

Multi-Container Pods02:15

Multi-Container Pods Design Patterns06:04

Lab - Multi Container Pods

Init Containers

Lab - Init Containers

Lab Solution - Init Containers (Optional)10:57

Self-Healing Applications

🆕Introduction to Autoscaling (2025 Updates)05:21

🆕 Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) (2025 Updates)05:29

Lab - Manual Scaling

Lab - HPA

🆕 In-place Resize of Pods (2025 Updates)03:30

🆕Vertical Pod Autoscaling (VPA) (2025 Updates)09:22

Lab - Install VPA

Lab - Modifying CPU resources in VPA

Cluster Maintenance

Topics

Lesson Content

Module Content

Cluster Maintenance - Section Introduction01:16

OS Upgrades03:49

Lab - OS Upgrades

Lab Solution - OS Upgrades (optional)10:50

Kubernetes Releases02:24

References

Cluster Upgrade Introduction11:11

Demo - Cluster Upgrade19:00

Lab - Cluster Upgrade Process

Lab Solution: Cluster Upgrade Process16:46

Backup and Restore Methods06:18

Working with ETCDCTL and ETCDUTL

Lab - Backup and Restore Methods

Certification Exam Tip!

References

Security

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Lesson Content

Module Content

Security - Section Introduction02:15

Kubernetes Security Primitives03:18

Authentication05:34

TLS Introduction01:29

TLS Basics20:03

TLS in Kubernetes07:48

TLS in Kubernetes - Certificate Creation10:55

View Certificate Details04:31

Certificate Health Check Spreadsheet

Lab - View Certificate Details

Lab Solution - View Certification Details21:29

Certificates API06:07

Lab - Certificates API

Lab Solution - Certificates API07:37

KubeConfig08:32

Lab - KubeConfig

Lab Solution - KubeConfig08:08

API Groups05:52

Authorization07:30

Role-Based Access Controls04:24

Lab - Role-Based Access Controls

Lab - Role-Based Access Controls13:28

Cluster Roles04:33

Lab - Cluster Roles

Lab Solution - Cluster Roles11:13

Service Accounts08:27

Lab - Service Accounts

Lab Solution- Service Accounts07:19

Image Security04:43

Lab - Image Security

Lab Solution - Image Security06:53

Prerequisite - Security in Docker05:33

Security Contexts01:52

Lab - Security Contexts

Lab Solution - Security Contexts05:11

Network Policies08:25

Developing Network Policies10:55

Lab - Network Policies

Lab Solution - Network Policies (optional)14:11

Kubectx and Kubens – Command line Utilities

🆕 (2025 Updates) Custom Resource Definition (CRD)11:01

🆕 Lab: Custom Resource Definition (2025 Updates)

🆕(2025 Updates) Custom Controllers03:57

🆕(2025 Updates) Operator Framework03:00

Optional Resource: External Secrets Operator

Storage

Topics

Lesson Content

Module Content

Storage - Section Introduction00:45

Docker Storage - Introduction00:54

Storage in Docker12:32

Volume Driver Plugins in Docker01:53

Container Storage Interface03:44

Volumes04:30

Persistent Volumes03:01

Persistent Volume Claims04:05

Using PVC in Pods

Lab - Persistent Volume Claims

Lab Solution - Persistent Volumes and Persistent Volume Claims (optional)18:12

Storage Class03:59

Lab - Storage Class

Lab Solution - Storage Class10:28

Networking

Topics

Lesson Content

Module Content

Networking - Introduction02:04

Prerequisite Switching, Routing, Gateways CNI in kubernetes12:12

Prerequisite DNS14:24

Prerequisite - CoreDNS

Prerequisite Network Namespaces15:09

FAQ

Prerequisite Docker Networking07:15

Prerequisite CNI06:10

Cluster Networking02:11

Important Note about CNI and CKA Exam

Lab - Explore Environment

Lab Solution - Explore Environment (optional)08:29

Pod Networking09:03

CNI in kubernetes03:06

Lab - Test CNI

Lab Solution - Explore CNI (optional)02:12

ipam02:25

🆕 Lab - Networking CNIs

Service Networking08:51

Lab - Service Networking

Lab Solution - Service Networking (optional)05:12

DNS in kubernetes05:39

CoreDNS in Kubernetes06:41

Lab - CoreDNS in Kubernetes

Lab Solution - Explore DNS (optional)15:57

Ingress22:34

Article: Ingress

Ingress - Annotations and rewrite-target

Lab - CKA - Ingress Networking - 1

Lab Solution - Ingress Networking - 1 (optional)15:46

Lab - CKA Ingress Networking - 2

Lab Solution - Ingress Networking - 2 (optional)14:34

🆕 Introduction to Gateway API (2025 Updates)08:23

🆕 Practical Guide to Gateway API (2025 Updates)

🆕 Lab - Gateway API (2025 Updates)

Design and Install a Kubernetes Cluster

Topics

Lesson Content

Module Content

Designing a Kubernetes Cluster05:44

Choosing Kubernetes Infrastructure05:52

Configuring High Availability07:44

etcd in HA12:16

Important Update: Kubernetes the Hard Way

Install “Kubernetes the kubeadm way”

Topics

Lesson Content

Module Content

Deployment With kubeadm - Introduction02:25

Resources

Deployment With Kubeadm - Provision VMs With Vagrant05:55

Demo - Deployment With Kubeadm25:51

Lab - Deploy a Kubernetes Cluster using Kubeadm

Lab Solution - Install a Kubernetes Cluster using kubeadm09:51

(2025 Updates) Helm Basics

Topics

Lesson Content

Module Content

🆕 Helm - Introduction06:33

🆕 Installation and Configuration01:25

🆕 Lab: Installing Helm

🆕 A quick note about Helm2 vs Helm308:09

🆕 Helm Components07:49

🆕 Helm charts07:24

🆕 Working with Helm: basics06:16

🆕 Customizing chart parameters04:05

🆕 Lab: using Helm to deploy a chart

🆕 Lifecycle management with Helm07:51

🆕 Lab: upgrading a helm chart

(2025 Updates) Kustomize Basics

Topics

Lesson Content

Module Content

🆕 Kustomize Problem Statement and Ideology08:03

🆕 Kustomize vs Helm04:34

🆕 Installation/Setup01:05

🆕 The kustomization.yaml File03:54

🆕 Kustomize Output02:31

🆕 Kustomize ApiVersion and Kind00:22

🆕 Managing Directories06:18

🆕 Managing Directories Demo09:21

🆕 Lab: Managing Directories(Kustomize)

🆕 Common Transformers03:27

🆕 Image Transformers02:31

🆕 Transformers Demo11:31

🆕 Lab: Transformers

🆕 Patches Intro08:29

🆕 Different Types of Patches01:13

🆕 Patches Dictionary06:02

🆕 Patches List06:21

🆕 Lab: Patches

🆕 Overlays05:41

🆕 Lab: Overlay

🆕 Components08:44

🆕 Lab: Components

Troubleshooting

Topics

Lesson Content

Module Content

Troubleshooting - Section Introduction00:27

Application Failure02:51

Lab - Application Failure

Lab Solution - Application Failure28:07

Control Plane Failure01:26

Lab - Control Plane Failure

Lab Solution: Control Plane Failure15:56

Worker Node Failure01:55

Lab - Worker Node Failure

Lab Solutions - Worker Node Failure10:22

Network Troubleshooting11:58

Lab - Troubleshoot Network

Lightning Labs

Topics

Lesson Content

Module Content

Lightning Lab Introduction

Lightning Lab - 1

Mock Exams

Topics

Lesson Content

Module Content

Mock Exam - Introduction

🆕 Mock Exam - 1

🆕 Mock Exam-1: Step-by-Step Solutions32:08

🆕 Mock Exam - 2

🆕 Mock Exam-2: Step-by-Step Solutions55:38

🆕 Mock Exam - 3

🆕 Mock Exam-3: Step-by-Step Solutions48:06

What's Next?07:23

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