Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) Boot Camp with Exam builds the skills and knowledge technology professionals need to pass the CKAD exam over four intensive days. The course covers topics from the CNCF CKAD curriculum in detail through lecture, then puts them into practice with hands-on labs and timed drills. Attendees leave with a clearer understanding of Kubernetes and the essential skills developers need on a Kubernetes platform, including advanced Pod design, application deployment configuration, networking within Pods, Pod observability, and stateful persistence. The final day spends the morning on test preparation and test-taking strategy, followed by the actual exam in the afternoon. Because the course runs at an intensive pace, students should expect long days and extended lab sessions for the best results.
Day one moves from container image basics into Pod architecture, covering InitContainers and EphemeralContainers alongside multi-container designs. It then wires configuration in through ConfigMaps, Secrets, and the DownwardAPI. Day two shifts to Controllers, where attendees build Deployments, ReplicaSets, Jobs, and CronJobs. Services and Ingress modules follow, covering ClusterIP, NodePort, and LoadBalancer types alongside TLS-based routing rules, and stateful primitives close the day with PVs, PVCs, and StatefulSets. Day three pairs Kubernetes security, covering authentication, authorization, admission control, and SecurityContexts, with observability practices such as distributed tracing and metrics-driven autoscaling. It then introduces Helm and Kustomize before the first test-prep block. Day four opens with a second round of timed drills ahead of the exam.
Who Should Attend
Developers, IT and QA Staff, Technical Managers, SREs, REs, DevOps and Build personnel
What Attendees Will Learn
Upon completing Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) Boot Camp with Exam, attendees will be able to:
- Build container images and explain container architecture
- Design Pods, including multi-container Pod architecture
- Configure applications using ConfigMaps, Secrets, and the Downward API
- Manage Deployments, ReplicaSets, Jobs, and CronJobs
- Configure Kubernetes Services and network policy
- Configure Ingress for application exposure
- Manage stateful primitives, including PVs, PVCs, and StatefulSets
- Apply Kubernetes security, including RBAC and SecurityContexts
- Apply Kubernetes observability practices
- Deploy applications using Helm and Kustomize
- Prepare for and pass the CKAD certification exam
Prerequisites
Students should have taken the RX-M “Docker Foundation” course or have equivalent knowledge of containerized solutions. Students should also have some practical experience, production or otherwise, with Kubernetes. RX-M offers self-study materials to help attendees prepare for the class.