Learn CKA Training

Prepare for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam with a structured, hands-on learning path. This roadmap focuses on practical Kubernetes cluster administration across installation and configuration, workloads and scheduling, services and networking, storage, and troubleshooting, plus performance-based exam tasks and real-world cloud-native scenarios. Guided CKA courses, labs, and mock exam practice will be added over time to help you build skills aligned with CKA objectives.

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CKA Prep

CKA Training Courses

CKA Prep

Beginner

kubernetescka

A beginner-friendly Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) preparation course with 48 guided Kubernetes administration labs arranged from cluster orientation to workloads, architecture, networking, storage, troubleshooting, and maintenance.

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Cluster Orientation and Admin Foundations

Inspect kubeconfig and Contexts

Explore Nodes and Cluster Version

Inspect API Resources and Namespaces

Read Events and Object Conditions

Use Labels, Selectors, and Field Selectors

Manage Namespaces for Administrative Workflows

Use Dry Run and Explain for Manifests

Workloads and Scheduling

Inspect Deployment and ReplicaSet Behavior

Perform a Controlled Deployment Rollout

Roll Back a Broken Rollout

Configure Workloads with ConfigMaps and Secrets

Set Requests, Limits, and Resource Evidence

Schedule Pods with Node Selectors

Place Workloads with Affinity Rules

Use Taints and Tolerations

Protect Availability with PodDisruptionBudgets

Cluster Architecture, Installation, and Configuration

Inspect Control Plane Components

Explore kubeadm Configuration Artifacts

Inspect Certificates and Cluster Trust

Grant Namespace Operator RBAC

Delegate Read-Only Cluster Diagnostics

Deploy an Addon with Helm

Customize Cluster Resources with Kustomize

Define and Use a Custom Resource

Inspect CNI, CSI, and CRI Interfaces

Services and Networking

Expose Applications with Services

Repair EndpointSlice Service Access

Troubleshoot Service DNS Resolution

Configure CoreDNS Conditional Forwarding

Restrict Egress with NetworkPolicy

Repair NetworkPolicy Access

Route HTTP Traffic with Ingress

Publish an API with Gateway Routing

Storage

Inspect StorageClasses and Dynamic Provisioning

Create a PVC for Application Data

Bind a Static PersistentVolume

Configure Access Modes and Volume Modes

Preserve Data with Reclaim Policies

Troubleshoot PVC Binding and Mounts

Troubleshooting and Maintenance

Diagnose Cluster Resource Pressure

Monitor Pods with Metrics and Top

Manage Container Output Streams

Debug Image Pull Failures

Diagnose Failed Init Containers

Restore a Crashing Static Pod Manifest

Safely Drain and Restore a Node

Recover Metrics-Based Scaling Signals

Restore Broken Service Traffic

CKA Practice Exam 01

Intermediate

kubernetescka

A hands-on CKA practice exam with 20 independent Kubernetes administration challenges covering storage, troubleshooting, workloads and scheduling, cluster architecture, and services and networking.

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CKA Practice Exam 02

Intermediate

kubernetescka

A second independent CKA-style practice exam with 20 Kubernetes administration challenges covering the public CKA domains through different operational scenarios.

Completed 0 of 20 Labs