Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) Certification Online Training Course
Length
4 days / 4 weeks
Price
$1,120 USD
Days
Mon - Fri
Why Choose This Course
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) is a hands-on certification that validates your ability to design, build, configure, and expose cloud native applications on Kubernetes. This instructor-led training course is designed for professionals who want to learn practical Kubernetes application development aligned to the official CKAD domains and competencies. You will use core Kubernetes primitives such as Pods, Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, and Ingress to implement real application scenarios, and you will gain the speed and accuracy needed for a performance-based exam. The curriculum maps to the current exam blueprint, including application design and build, deployment strategies, observability, configuration and security, and services and networking. It also reflects the CNCF and Linux Foundation description of what a successful CKAD can do in industry today.
Kubernetes has become a standard platform for modern software delivery. Developers, DevOps engineers, and platform teams are increasingly expected to write manifests, implement probes, roll out updates with canary or blue/green patterns, secure applications with Secrets and ServiceAccounts, and troubleshoot using logs and events. This course focuses on those job-ready tasks to help you learn and prepare for certification without hype.
What you will do: Through guided labs and scenario-based exercises, you will practice creating multi-container Pods, managing configuration and application security, setting resource requests and limits, applying NetworkPolicies, exposing services and Ingress, templating with Helm and Kustomize, and debugging failed workloads. You will also review how authentication, authorization, and admission control affect application behavior and how to extend Kubernetes with custom resources. A certificate of course attendance is included.
Prerequisites
- There are no formal prerequisites for this course.
Exam
Candidates can achieve this certification by passing the following exam(s).
- Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) exam, code CKAD.
Books
- Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) course material included.
Delivery
- Live virtual online training attend in real-time from anywhere
Skills Gained
- Design and build container images for Kubernetes workloads
- Create, modify, and validate Kubernetes resource definitions in YAML
- Choose appropriate workload resources (Deployments, Jobs, CronJobs, DaemonSets)
- Implement multi-container Pod patterns (sidecar, init, adapter)
- Configure application health with liveness, readiness, and startup probes
- Manage application configuration using ConfigMaps and projected volumes
- Protect sensitive data using Secrets and apply ServiceAccounts
- Apply security contexts and basic capabilities for application isolation
- Set and troubleshoot resource requests, limits, and quotas
- Use Helm charts and Kustomize to template and manage manifests
- Expose applications with Services and Ingress; configure path and host routing
- Implement and verify basic NetworkPolicies for traffic control
- Attach storage using volumes, PersistentVolumes, PersistentVolumeClaims, and StorageClasses
- Observe workloads using kubectl logs, events, and describe; perform basic debugging
- Understand authentication, authorization, and admission control effects on apps
- Discover and use resources that extend Kubernetes (CRDs, Operators)
- Perform rolling updates and rollbacks; model blue/green and canary releases
- Troubleshoot failed Pods, CrashLoopBackOff, image pull errors, and scheduling issues
- Organize workloads across namespaces and apply labels and annotations effectively
- Optimize kubectl productivity with generators, explain, and dry-run patterns
Audience
Course Schedule & Pricing
Choose the schedule that fits your life — all options include full course materials & certification support
Full-time immersion for rapid certification readiness.
04 weeks Balance your career while you upgrade your skills.
04 weeks Maximum flexibility for busy working professionals.
Outline
- Kubernetes API basics, namespaces, and kubectl productivity
- YAML authoring patterns and validation techniques
- Pod fundamentals and lifecycle management
- Multi-container Pod patterns: sidecar, init, adapter
- Deployments and ReplicaSets: scaling, rollouts, rollbacks
- Jobs and CronJobs for batch and scheduled workloads
- Configuration management with ConfigMaps and projected volumes
- Secrets: creation, mounting, and environment variable usage
- ServiceAccounts and role-based access for applications
- Resource requests, limits, and namespace quotas
- Probes for application health: liveness, readiness, startup
- Application logging, events, and on-cluster debugging workflows
- Packaging with Helm: install, upgrade, and values management
- Kustomize overlays for environment-specific customization
- Volumes, PersistentVolumes, PersistentVolumeClaims, StorageClasses
- Services: ClusterIP, NodePort; service selectors and DNS
- Ingress resources: host and path routing plus TLS basics
- NetworkPolicies: default deny, ingress and egress rules
- Security contexts and basic capability settings for Pods and containers
- Authentication, authorization, and admission control impacts
- Custom resources and Operators for application extension
- Deployment strategies: blue and green, canary, and surge configurations
- Troubleshooting: image pull backoff, CrashLoopBackOff, scheduling, permissions
- Best practices for structure, naming, labels, and reproducible manifests
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