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Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

5 Courses
4 Labs
14 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.

Course

Application Design and Build for CKAD

  • by Patrick Rusch
  • 1h 42m
  • Jun 17, 2025
Course

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer: Application Deployment

  • by Dan Wahlin
  • 2h 29m
  • Sep 07, 2022
Course

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer: Application Observability and Maintenance

  • by Dan Wahlin
  • 2h 35m
  • Feb 15, 2023
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Certified Kubernetes Application Developer: Application Environment, Configuration, and Security

  • by Elle Krout
  • 2h 7m
  • Mar 07, 2024
Course

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer: Services and Networking

  • by Nigel Poulton
  • 1h 26m
  • Sep 23, 2022
Lab

Workloads Deep Dive for CKAD

  • 1h
  • Aug 14, 2025
Lab

Config, Secrets & Security for CKAD

  • 45m
  • Aug 14, 2025
Lab

Services, Networking & Probes for CKAD

  • 45m
  • Aug 14, 2025
Lab

Volumes, Multi-Containers & Logging for CKAD

  • 45m
  • Aug 12, 2025
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Build confidence to ace your certification exam with a variety of prep tools, including video courses, labs, and practice exams.

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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Patrick Rusch
Patrick Rusch
Patrick is a Senior Consultant and IT Instructor since 2012. His technical background lies at VMware's server virtualization solution vSphere. In the last years he mainly focused on automating on-premise and public cloud environments, as well as Kubernetes clusters.
Dan Wahlin
Dan Wahlin
Dan Wahlin founded Wahlin Consulting, which provides consulting and training services on JavaScript, Angular, Node.js, C#, ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Docker, and Kubernetes. He is a Google GDE (and former Microsoft MVP and Regional Director), Docker Captain, and speaks at conferences and user groups around the world. Dan is active on Twitter (@DanWahlin), blogs at https://blog.codewithdan.com, and adds a lot of code to his Github repos at https://github.com/danwahlin.
Elle Krout
Elle Krout
With a background at a cloud hosting company, I started learning Linux and DevOps from the bottom up as a technical writer set out to document configuration management systems. Falling in love with Linux, DevOps and tech as a whole, I eventually took my ability to explain technical concepts to wide audiences to the training area, creating courses on Red Hat, SaltStack, HashiCorp, LXD, Docker, and more.
Nigel Poulton
Nigel Poulton
Nigel is a popular figure in the tech industry, best-known for his videos and books on container technologies. He is currently a Docker Captain and spends most of his time working with Docker and Kubernetes. Prior to working with container technologies, Nigel has done everything from changing backup tapes and resetting passwords all the way up to designing and managing large-scale solutions in some of the most demanding corporate environments in the world. Nigel is also passionate about his fami...

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