CKAD Exam Study Resources

Here' you'll find a list of blog posts covering preparations for the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) exam. I've also a collection of study notes for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam which you can find here

This page will be updated as content gets created

First the current (as of Jan 2021) the objectives for the exam is the following:

The following blog posts can be used as study resources for this exam. Note that some of them was created as preparation for the CKA exam, but there is some overlap between that and the CKAD exam.

General

• CKAD Study guide
• CKAD exam review

Core Concepts

• Kubernetes Pod reference (external link)

Configuration

• ConfigMaps and Secrets
• Resource Requirements
• Service Accounts

Multi-Container Pods

• [Multi-container Pods]

Observability

• Troubleshooting
• Application Monitoring
• Logging

Pod Design

• Jobs and CronJobs
• Daemon sets vs Replica Sets vs Deployments

Services & Networking

• Kubernetes networking
• Services
• [Network Policies]

State Persistence

• Kubernetes storage volumes
• Persistent Volumes and Claims