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CKA - Certified Kubernetes Administrator Intensive Training
Beginner · 5 half days or flexible as in-house training · In-House
60% Hands-on Practice
Exercises with real projects from everyday development
Certified Trainers
Google Developer Experts & Community Experts
Bonus: Lifetime Access
Materials stay up to date — even after the workshop
Bonus: Personal Cloud Environment
Personal Kubernetes cluster for practicing in the cloud — no local installation needed
This workshop prepares you specifically for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam from the Linux Foundation / CNCF – the internationally recognized certification for professional Kubernetes administration.
Important: The exam and certification are not part of this course and are not included in the seminar price. In cooperation with the Linux Foundation, we offer you the option to book and take the exam separately.
The training covers all five official exam domains in full: Cluster Architecture, Installation & Configuration (25%), Workloads & Scheduling (15%), Services & Networking (20%), Storage (10%) and Troubleshooting (30%). The curriculum is aligned with the 2026 version – including Helm, Kustomize, Gateway API, CRDs and Operators.
Agenda
Kubernetes Introduction & Architecture
Every participant gets their own test environment in the cloud. All concepts are explained using clear examples and can be tried out directly in more than 30 hands-on exercises in the classroom.
- Overview of the Kubernetes ecosystem and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
- Cluster architecture: control plane (API server, etcd, scheduler, controller manager) and worker nodes (kubelet, kube-proxy, container runtime)
- Container runtimes: containerd, CRI-O and the Container Runtime Interface (CRI)
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kubectl mastery: imperative vs. declarative approach, aliases, shortcuts and
--dry-run=client -o yaml - Pods: creating, configuring and managing
- Commands & args in pods
- Multi-container pods: sidecar, init and ambassador patterns
- Probes: liveness, readiness and startup
- Labels and selectors
Workloads & Scheduling
- ReplicaSets: self-healing and scaling
- Deployments: rolling updates, rollbacks and revision history
- DaemonSets: deploying node-wide workloads
- StatefulSets: running stateful applications
- Jobs and CronJobs: one-off and scheduled tasks
- ConfigMaps and Secrets: cleanly separating configuration from images
- Automatic scaling with the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA)
- Node selector, node affinity and pod affinity
- Taints and tolerations: placing and repelling workloads deliberately
- Resource requests and limits: controlling pod admission and scheduling
Networking & Ingress
- The Kubernetes network model: pod-to-pod communication and cluster networking
- Overview of CNI plugins: Calico, Flannel, Cilium
- Services in detail: ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer and ExternalName
- Understanding service discovery and endpoints
- CoreDNS: configuration and troubleshooting
- Configuring ingress controllers and ingress resources
- Gateway API: the modern successor to Ingress – HTTPRoute and Gateway resources
- Network policies: ingress and egress rules following the least-privilege principle
Storage
- Overview of volumes and their types
- Static persistence: creating and using PersistentVolumes (PV) manually
- Dynamic persistence: StorageClasses and automatic volume provisioning
- PersistentVolumeClaims (PVC): access modes and reclaim policies
- Storage in StatefulSets: volumeClaimTemplates
Security & Access Control
- Overview of the Kubernetes security model
- Authentication: certificates, ServiceAccounts and Certificate Signing Requests (CSR)
- Authorization with RBAC: Roles, ClusterRoles, RoleBindings and ClusterRoleBindings
- Security contexts: restricting permissions at pod and container level
- Secrets management with Sealed Secrets (bonus)
Cluster Operations & Maintenance
- Monitoring & logging: kubectl logs, kubectl top, events and metrics-server
- Prometheus: collecting and visualizing cluster metrics
- Node maintenance: cordon, drain and uncordon
- Cluster lifecycle management: Kubernetes upgrade with kubeadm (control plane and worker nodes)
- etcd backup and restore: securing the cluster state
- Highly available control plane: stacked etcd vs. external etcd topology
Tooling & CKA Exam Preparation
- Helm: installing and upgrading charts and structuring your own charts
- Kustomize: managing environment-specific configurations with overlays (bonus)
- Exam format and time management: structure and procedure of the CKA exam
- Using the permitted resources efficiently: kubernetes.io/docs, helm.sh/docs, gateway-api.sigs.k8s.io
- Tips & tricks: kubectl aliases, switching contexts, generating YAML templates quickly
- Mock exam: simulated exam under realistic conditions on the command line
- Evaluation and individual recommendations for further exam preparation
What you should know
Prerequisites
We provide you with a fully preconfigured lab environment with real Kubernetes clusters for the workshop – you don't need to install anything in advance.
If you'd still like to warm up, we recommend:
👉 Install kubectl and set up a local cluster with minikube or kind
👉 Work through the official Kubernetes tutorial at kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials (approx. 2 hours)
Target Audience
The course “CKA - Certified Kubernetes Administrator” is aimed at Beginner.
What's Included
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Alles Wichtige wurde verständlich vermittelt und das Team ist bereit, erwartungsgemäß mit der Containerisierung von Anwendungen beginnen zu können.
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Teamleiter
Toller Workshop - viele Infos, gute Übungen und strukturierte Erklärungen. Gerne wieder!
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Ich bin sicher, dass mit das Erlernte in der praktischen Arbeit weiter helfen wird. Mehr Klarheit und Verständnis für die vorhandene Kubernetes Umgebung.
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DevOps Engineer / Anwendungsentwickler
Kompetenter und motivierter Trainer. Super Umsetzung. Gerne wieder
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Solution Integration and Deployment
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Marcus Ehrlich
IT Service Engineer
Eine Schulung in der man viel lernt und auch noch Spaß dabei hat. So muss das sein!
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Questions and answers
Our public CKA - Certified Kubernetes Administrator remote courses take place from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM, on-site CKA - Certified Kubernetes Administrator trainings from 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM.
For in-house seminars, individual adjustments are possible.
Yes. At the end of each of our CKA - Certified Kubernetes Administrator seminars, participants receive a signed certificate of attendance.
The certificate includes a verification URL and can be shared on your LinkedIn profile. Learn more about managing certificates on LinkedIn.
Yes, we offer our CKA - Certified Kubernetes Administrator seminars in German and English.
Public dates are held in German, unless explicitly stated otherwise.
In-house seminars can be conducted in the desired language.
All materials and exercises are fully available in English.
Yes. We offer our CKA - Certified Kubernetes Administrator seminars both remotely and on-site. Thanks to our virtual classroom, you can conveniently participate in our workshops from anywhere. Our online presentations are regularly updated, and you have permanent access after the training. Exercises can be accessed and unlocked through an online interface, and we have added additional tasks to prepare you for remote workshops.
We also offer in-house seminars and public trainings on-site. In our schedule overview, you can see the respective venue of the trainings. For in-house trainings, we are happy to discuss the venue details individually with you.
For public CKA - Certified Kubernetes Administrator seminars, we use the online meeting tool Zoom alongside our classroom.
A test link is also included in the preparation to let you try out the technology. The remote workshop is designed so that everyone works from different locations with their own computer.
For in-house seminars, we can conduct the meeting via Zoom or Microsoft Teams.
Other meeting software may be used by arrangement.
In-house CKA - Certified Kubernetes Administrator trainings: Individual consulting with code mentoring
For our in-house seminars, we additionally offer code mentoring.
What is code mentoring?
- Ask-Me-Anything sessions: Clarify questions and uncertainties from the course directly with an expert.
- Code review: Submit your own code snippets and have them analyzed and evaluated by experts.
- Advanced topics: Ask in-depth questions about the course topic to expand your knowledge.
Public CKA - Certified Kubernetes Administrator trainings: Exchange on our community Discord
For participants of public trainings, we recommend joining our community Discord server.
Your benefits on Discord:
- Diverse channels for questions and discussions – beyond the course topic.
- An engaged community that supports you in learning.
Yes. You can enter your routing ID directly in our order form. Our invoices are sent as ZUGFeRD PDFs right after booking.
If you have provided a routing ID, our team will be notified and we will handle the upload to the portal. If we need additional information, we will contact you after booking.
Still have questions?
Just send us an email. If you prefer a more personal contact, Britta is also happy to receive a call from you!
