CURRICULUM.md

Certified Kubernetes Administrator Exam Curriculum

Version 1.9.0, January 2018 https://github.com/cncf/curriculum/blob/master/certified_kubernetes_administrator_exam_v1.9.0.pdf https://github.com/cncf/curriculum/

Application Lifecycle Management [8%]

• Understand Deployments and how to perform rolling updates and rollbacks.
• Know various ways to configure applications.
• Know how to scale applications.
• Understand the primitives necessary to create a self-healing application.

Cluster Maintenance [11%]

• Understand Kubernetes cluster upgrade process.
  • kubeadm
  • Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes
• Facilitate operating system upgrades.
• Implement backup and restore methodologies.

Core Concepts [19%]

• Understand the Kubernetes API primitives.
• Understand the Kubernetes cluster architecture.
• Understand Services and other network primitives.

Installation, Configuration & Validation [12%]

• Design a Kubernetes cluster.
• Install Kubernetes masters and nodes, including the use of TLS bootstrapping.
• Configure secure cluster communications.
• Configure a Highly-Available Kubernetes cluster.
• Know where to get the Kubernetes release binaries.
• Provision underlying infrastructure to deploy a Kubernetes cluster.
• Choose a network solution.
• Choose your Kubernetes infrastructure configuration.
• Run end-to-end tests on your cluster.
• Analyse end-to-end tests results.
• Run Node end-to-end tests.

Logging/Monitoring [5%]

• Understand how to monitor all cluster components.
• Understand how to monitor applications.
• Manage cluster component logs.
• Manage application logs.

Networking [11%]

• Understand the networking configuration on the cluster nodes.
• Understand Pod networking concepts.
• Understand service networking.
• Deploy and configure network load balancer.
• Know how to use Ingress rules.
• Know how to configure and use the cluster DNS.
• Understand CNI.

Scheduling [5%]

• Use label selectors to schedule Pods.
• Understand the role of DaemonSets.
• Understand how resource limits can affect Pod scheduling.
• Understand how to run multiple schedulers and how to configure Pods to use them.
• Manually schedule a pod without a scheduler.
• Display scheduler events.
• Know how to configure the Kubernetes scheduler.

Security [12%]

• Know how to configure authentication and authorization.
• Understand Kubernetes security primitives.
• Know to configure network policies.
• Create and manage TLS certificates for cluster components.
• Work with images securely.
• Define security contexts.
• Secure persistent key value store.
• Work with role-based access control.

Storage [7%]

• Understand persistent volumes and know how to create them.
• Understand access modes for volumes.
• Understand persistent volume claims primitive.
• Understand Kubernetes storage objects.
• Know how to configure applications with persistent storage.

Troubleshooting [10%]

• Troubleshoot application failure.
• Troubleshoot control plane failure.
• Troubleshoot worker node failure.
• Troubleshoot networking.