The Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) program provides assurance that CKAs have the skills, knowledge, and competency to perform the responsibilities of Kubernetes administrators. This certification is for Kubernetes administrators, cloud administrators and other IT professionals who manage Kubernetes instances.

A certified Kubernetes administrator will be having the ability to do basic installation as well as configuring and managing production-grade Kubernetes clusters. They will have an understanding of key concepts such as Kubernetes networking, storage, security, maintenance, logging and monitoring, application lifecycle, troubleshooting, API object primitives and the ability to establish basic use-cases for end users.

Cluster Architecture, Installation & Configuration

• Manage role based access control (RBAC)

•  Use Kubeadm to install a basic cluster

•  Manage a highly-available Kubernetes cluster

•  Provision underlying infrastructure to deploy a Kubernetes cluster

•  Perform a version upgrade on a Kubernetes cluster using Kubeadm

•  Implement etcd backup and restore