KCNA Certification Online Training (Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate)
Length
2 days / 2 weeks
Price
$829 USD
Days
Mon - Fri
Why Choose This Course
Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate equips you with a clear, practical understanding of Kubernetes fundamentals and the wider cloud native ecosystem. This instructor-led training focuses on core concepts you need to discuss, design, and support containerized applications at work. You will learn how Kubernetes components fit together, how workloads are defined and exposed, and how cloud native approaches such as GitOps, CI/CD, observability, and service mesh support reliable delivery at scale. The course is aligned to the current Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate exam scope and uses terminology consistent with the official blueprint to help you prepare with confidence.
Why it matters: Kubernetes has become the de facto platform for running modern applications across cloud and on-premises environments. Teams need people who can reason about clusters, pods, services, policies, and the surrounding CNCF projects, even if they are not yet full-time cluster administrators. This course helps you build that foundation so you can participate effectively in DevOps, platform engineering, or cloud migration initiatives.
What you will do: through guided explanation and hands-on practice, you will define basic workloads and services, work with configuration and secrets, understand scheduling and health, and reason about networking, storage, and security at an associate level. You will also explore how monitoring, logging, and tracing come together for effective operations, and how release practices such as blue/green and canary improve delivery safety. The training is exam-aligned and focused on practical value without hype. A certificate of course attendance is included.
Prerequisites
- There are no formal prerequisites for this course. Basic familiarity with Linux command line and container concepts is helpful but not mandatory.
Exam
Candidates can achieve this certification by passing the following exam(s).
- Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate exam KCNA
Books
- Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA) course material included.
Delivery
- Live virtual online training attend in real-time from anywhere
Skills Gained
- Explain Kubernetes architecture, control plane components, and worker node responsibilities
- Describe core Kubernetes API resources including Pods, Deployments, ReplicaSets, DaemonSets, StatefulSets, Jobs, and CronJobs
- Work with Services, ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer, and basic Ingress concepts
- Understand container images, registries, and basic image security considerations
- Apply configuration using ConfigMaps and Secrets for twelve‑factor applications
- Describe scheduling basics, readiness and liveness probes, and workload health
- Outline Kubernetes security fundamentals: authentication, authorization, RBAC, and least privilege
- Explain network policies at a conceptual level for pod‑to‑pod traffic control
- Summarize persistent storage concepts: volumes, PersistentVolumes, PersistentVolumeClaims, StorageClasses, and the CSI model
- Understand cloud native observability: metrics, logs, traces, and common tooling patterns
- Describe CI/CD, GitOps principles, and progressive delivery strategies
- Recognize the role of service mesh for traffic management, mTLS, and resilience
- Navigate the CNCF landscape at a high level and identify project categories
- Explain autoscaling concepts such as Horizontal Pod Autoscaler triggers and limits
- Interpret common kubectl commands for inspecting resources and basic troubleshooting
Audience
- Junior to intermediate DevOps and platform engineers
- Software developers building or supporting containerized applications
- Systems administrators and site reliability engineers moving to Kubernetes
- Cloud engineers, QA, and support teams collaborating on cloud native services
- Technical project managers and architects who need a shared vocabulary for cloud native delivery
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.
Balance your career while you upgrade your skills.
Maximum flexibility for busy working professionals.
Outline
- Cloud native principles and the CNCF landscape
- Kubernetes use cases and cluster building blocks
- Control plane overview: API server, scheduler, controller managers, etcd
- Worker node services and container runtimes (e.g., containerd, CRI‑O)
- Kubernetes API objects and resource modeling
- Pods: lifecycle, multi‑container patterns, init and sidecar containers
- Deployments and ReplicaSets: rollouts, rollbacks, and revision history
- DaemonSets and StatefulSets: when and why to use them
- Batch processing with Jobs and CronJobs
- Services: ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer; service discovery basics
- Ingress fundamentals and typical traffic management patterns
- Namespaces, labels, selectors, and annotations for organization and policy
- Configuration management with ConfigMaps and Secrets
- Probes and health: readiness, liveness, and startup probes
- Scheduling basics: placement, taints and tolerations, affinity and anti‑affinity
- Storage concepts: volumes, PVs, PVCs, StorageClasses, CSI overview
- Security fundamentals: authentication, authorization, RBAC, service accounts
- Network Policies: conceptual model for micro‑segmentation
- Observability: metrics, logging, tracing; introduction to Prometheus and OpenTelemetry concepts
- CI/CD and GitOps: pipelines, manifests, and declarative delivery
- Release strategies: blue/green, canary, and rollback considerations
- Autoscaling concepts and resource requests/limits
- Service mesh fundamentals: traffic shifting, retries, and mTLS
- Troubleshooting workflow with kubectl, events, and logs
- Governance and community: CNCF projects, maturity levels, and open standards
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)
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