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• Kubernetes Certified Administrator (CKA)
• Kubernetes Certified Security Specialist (CKS)
• DevOps Engineer

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Become a Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) in just 4 weeks working only 4 hours on Saturday and 4 hours on Sunday. The CKA exam is performance based meaning that you only get to perform hand-on activities in the exam. Our training is structured to enable you get lots of hands-on activities. We will take you through mock exams that will help prepare you for the exam. You will be taught by a CKA instructor who has several years of expereince working with Kubernetes and the cloudnative tools.

You can have access to CKA curriculum here but below is the schedule of training.

Domain 1: Cluster Architecture,Installation & Configuration [ 25% ]

• Manage role-based Access Control (RBAC)
• Use Kubeadm to Install a Basic Cluster
• Manage a Highly-available Kubernetes Cluster.
• Provision Underlying Infrastructure to Deploy a Kubernetes cluster.
• Perform a Version upgrade on a Kubernetes Cluster Using Kubeadm
• Implement etcd Backup and Restore

Domain 2: Workloads & Scheduling [ 15% ]

• Understand Deployments and How to Perform Rolling Update and rollbacks
• Use Config Maps and Secrets to Configure applications.
• Know How to Scale Applications.
• Understand the Primitives Used to Create Robust, Self-healing, Application Deployments.
• Understand How Resource Limits Can Affect Pod Scheduling.
• Awareness of manifest management and common templating tools.

Domain 3: Services & Networking [ 20% ]

• Understand host networking configuration on the cluster nodes
• Understand Connectivity Between Pods.
• Know How to Configure and Use CoreDNS.
• Choose an appropriate container network interface plugin.

Domain 4: Storage [ 10% ]

• Understand Storage Classes, Persistent Volumes, Persistent Volume Claims.
• Understand Volume Mode, Access Modes and Reclaim Policies for volumes.
• Know How to Configure Applications With Persistent Storage.

Domain 5: Troubleshooting [ 30% ]

• Evaluate Cluster and Node Logging & Managing Logs.
• Understand How to Monitor Applications.
• Troubleshoot Application Failure.
• Troubleshoot Cluster Component Failure.
• Troubleshoot Networking.

Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)

Become a Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) in just 4 weeks working only 4 hours on Saturday and 4 hours on Sunday. The CKS exam is performance based meaning that you only get to perform hand-on activities in the exam. Our training is structured to enable you get lots of hands-on activities. We will take you through mock exams that will help prepare you for the exam. You will be taught by a CKS instructor who has several years of expereince working with Kubernetes and the cloudnative tools.

You can have access to CKS curriculum here but below is the schedule of training.

Domain 1: Cluster Setup [10%]

• Kubernetes Network Policies
• Kubernetes CIS benchmark
• Ingress Security.
• Kubernetes Node Metadata & Endpoints.
• Securing Kubernetes GUI
• Verify platform binaries before deploying

Domain 2: Cluster Hardening [15%]

• Restrict access to Kubernetes API
• Use Role-Based Access Controls to minimize exposure
• Exercise caution in using service accounts e.g., disable defaults, minimize permissions on newly created ones.
• Update Kubernetes frequently.

Domain 3: System Hardening [15%]

• Minimize host OS footprint (reduce attack surface)
• Minimize IAM roles.
• Minimize external access to the network.
• Appropriately use kernel hardening tools such as AppArmor, seccomp.

Domain 4: Minimize Microservice Vulnerabilities [20%]

• Setup appropriate OS-level security domains e.g. using PSP, OPA, security contexts.
• Manage Kubernetes secrets.
• Use container runtime sandboxes in multi-tenant environments (e.g. gvisor, kata containers).
• Implement pod to pod encryption by use of mTLS.

Domain 5: Supply Chain Security [20%]

• Minimize base image footprint.
• Secure your supply chain: whitelist allowed registries, sign and validate images.
• Use static analysis of user workloads (e.g.Kubernetes resources, Docker files).
• Scan images for known vulnerabilities.

Domain 6: Monitoring, Logging and Runtime Security [20%]

• Perform behavioral analytics of syscall process and file activities at the host and container level to detect malicious activities.
• Detect threats within a physical infrastructure, apps, networks, data, users, and workloads.
• Detect all phases of attack regardless of where it occurs and how it spreads.
• Perform deep analytical investigation and identification of bad actors within the environment.
• Ensure immutability of containers at runtime.
• Use Audit Logs to monitor access.

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