COVID-19 provides an excellent opportunity to up-skill your game around Kubernetes. Here are some tips and a video that takes you through the prep needed to ace the CKA and CKAD Kubernetes certifications. Enterprises will most likely enter into a period of cost reduction both in licenses and infrastructure. Kubernetes provides the container density to consolidate your datacenter footprint and postpone that migration to public cloud and save millions of dollars.
Remember the key to ace the CKA and CKAD exams is to understand how to generate the K8s manifest YAMLs expeditiously and practice with the exam simulators. These exams are real and provide a solid foundation in developing and operating on Kubernetes. In some ways CKAD is more challenging than the CKA. However the breadth of the CKA is 30% more than CKAD. So you can chose to go broad or you can chose to go deep.
Here are the top resources:
Remember the key to ace the CKA and CKAD exams is to understand how to generate the K8s manifest YAMLs expeditiously and practice with the exam simulators. These exams are real and provide a solid foundation in developing and operating on Kubernetes. In some ways CKAD is more challenging than the CKA. However the breadth of the CKA is 30% more than CKAD. So you can chose to go broad or you can chose to go deep.
Here are the top resources:
- GitHub - dgkanatsios/CKAD-exercises: A set of exercises to prepare for Certified Kubernetes Application Developer exam by Cloud Native Computing Foundation
- walidshaari/Kubernetes-Certified-Administrator: Online resources that will help you prepare for taking the CNCF CKA "Kubernetes Certified Administrator" Certification exam. with time, This is not likely the comprehensive up to date list - please make a pull request if there something that should be added here.
- Kubectl Reference Docs
- Practice Enough With These 150 Questions for the CKAD Exam
- kubernetes-the-hard-way/docs at master · mmumshad/kubernetes-the-hard-way
- How to Prepare and Ace the CKA/CKAD Certifications - Zoom
- Part 1. Overview - Kubernetes in Action
- Preparing for CKA and CKAD.pdf - Google Drive
- troubleshooting-kubernetes.pdf
- Practice at least three times if giving the CKA using different providers - kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way: Bootstrap Kubernetes the hard way on Google Cloud Platform. No scripts.
- Tmux Cheat Sheet & Quick Reference
- Kubernetes Certified Application Developer (CKAD) with Tests | Udemy
- External commands: Learning Vim
- Navigate using keys: H, J, K, L: Learning Vim
- Kubernetes Concepts and Deployment E-book | Microsoft Azure
- What’s new in Kubernetes 1.17? | Sysdig
- Game of PODs - Game | Kode Kloud
- Exam Simulator killer.sh
Finally a cheesily edited video by my son Rushil Kelapure of me and my colleagues Varun, Igor, Alfus and Wael in VMware Pivotal Labs App Modernization Team providing guidance on how to study for CKA & CKAD certifications.
Best Of Luck!
Rohit
Rohit
