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CKAD Practice Exam - Part 1

This lab is designed to help prepare for the kinds of tasks and scenarios encountered during the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) exam. In this lab, you will have the opportunity to practice your skills related to creating and configuring pods, deployments, and services. You will create a deployment which manages a set of specially-configured replica pods, and then expose those pods using a service.

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Level
Clock icon Intermediate
Duration
Clock icon 1h 30m
Last updated
Clock icon Sep 02, 2025

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Build the deployment and create it in the cluster

    Build a deployment descriptor called pizza-deployment.yml:

    apiVersion: apps/v1
    kind: Deployment
    metadata:
      name: pizza-deployment
      namespace: pizza
    spec:
      replicas: 3
      selector:
        matchLabels:
          app: pizza
      template:
        metadata:
          labels:
            app: pizza
        spec:
          containers:
          - name: pizza
            image: linuxacademycontent/pizza-service:1.14.6
            command: ["nginx"]
            args: ["-g", "daemon off;"]
            ports:
            - containerPort: 80
            livenessProbe:
              httpGet:
                path: /healthz
                port: 8081
            readinessProbe:
              httpGet:
                path: /
                port: 80
    

    Create the deployment in the cluster:

    kubectl apply -f pizza-deployment.yml
    
  2. Challenge

    Build the service and create it in the cluster

    Build a service descriptor called pizza-service.yml:

    apiVersion: v1
    kind: Service
    metadata:
      name: pizza-service
      namespace: pizza
    spec:
      type: NodePort
      selector:
        app: pizza
      ports:
      - protocol: TCP
        port: 80
        nodePort: 30080
    

    Create the service in the cluster:

    kubectl apply -f pizza-service.yml
    

    You can verify the service is working by testing the nodePort with curl:

    curl localhost:30080
    

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