CKAD - Certified Kubernetes Application Developer Course

CKAD Course focuses on the practical skills developers need to design, build, configure, deploy, expose, monitor, and troubleshoot cloud-native applications on Kubernetes. The training follows the current CKAD domains covering application design and build, deployment, observability and maintenance, environment configuration and security, plus services and networking.

Prerequisites

• Linux command-line proficiency
• Basic Kubernetes knowledge
• Familiarity with kubectl
• Understanding of containers (Docker / OCI)
• YAML configuration basics
• Experience with at least one programming language
• Basic knowledge of CI/CD concepts

Who Should Take This Course

• Application Developers
• Cloud-Native Developers
• DevOps Engineers
• Site Reliability Engineers (SREs)
• System Administrators transitioning to Kubernetes
• Cloud Engineers
• IT professionals working with containerized applications
• Professionals preparing for CKAD certification

What You Will Learn

• Kubernetes architecture and core concepts
• Pods, ReplicaSets, and Deployments
• Multi-container pod design patterns
• Services and Ingress
• ConfigMaps and Secrets
• Resource limits and requests
• Persistent Volumes and Persistent Volume Claims
• StatefulSets
• NetworkPolicies
• Application rollouts and rollbacks
• Scaling and autoscaling workloads
• Debugging and troubleshooting with kubectl

What You Will Be Able to Do After Completing this Training

• Build and manage OCI-compliant container images
• Create Pods, Deployments, StatefulSets, Jobs, and CronJobs
• Design production-ready multi-container pods
• Configure ConfigMaps, Secrets, and environment variables
• Implement rolling updates and controlled rollbacks
• Set resource limits and autoscaling
• Use Helm and Kustomize for packaging
• Troubleshoot applications using kubectl like a pro
• Monitor cluster resource usage
• Pass the CKAD exam with confidence