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Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

5 Courses
4 Labs
12 Hours
Practice exam

This path focuses on the skills and knowledge required to design, build, and configure applications for Kubernetes. You’ll take your knowledge as a developer and fit that into the Kubernetes ecosystem. By the end of this path, you’ll have the skills needed to begin integrating Kubernetes into your software development process, making it easy and convenient to develop, distribute, and manage your software.

Additionally, these courses will help you in preparing for taking the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) exam.

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Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

This path focuses on the skills and knowledge required to design, build, and configure applications for Kubernetes. You’ll take your knowledge as a developer and fit that into the Kubernetes ecosystem. By the end of this path, you’ll have the skills needed to begin integrating Kubernetes into your software development process, making it easy and convenient to develop, distribute, and manage your software.

Additionally, these courses will help you in preparing for taking the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) exam.

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What You'll Learn
  • Introduce the CKAD certification and exam. Explain who the audience is, the prerequisites for it, and strategies for successfully getting certified
  • Understand application design and build
  • Deploy applications
  • Implement application observability and maintenance
  • Configure and secure the application environment
  • Implement Services and networking
Prerequisites
  • Comfortable with an OCI-compliant container runtime, such as Docker or rkt
  • Cloud native application concepts and architectures
  • Fluent in a programming language
Related topics
  • Kubernetes
  • Containers
  • Docker
  • Software Development
  • Kubernetes Administration
  • CKA
  • DevOps
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