Kubernetes Administration Fundamentals – Technical Training Course - Dates and application
First training day: 15 June 2026 , Additional training days: 16., 17.
First training day: 26 August 2026 , Additional training days: 27., 28.
First training day: 9 November 2026 , Additional training days: 10., 11.
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This training program covers the topics of the Certified Kubernetes Administrator exam. Topics include installation, application lifecycle management, networking, storage, security, scheduling, logging, maintenance, and troubleshooting of Kubernetes.
Systems administrators and DevOps professionals
• Proficiency with the Linux CLI (U8583S: Linux Fundamentals (GL120)
• A broad understanding of Linux system administration (H7091S: Enterprise Linux Systems Administration (GL250))
• foundational knowledge of Linux containers, e.g. Docker (H0DS3S: Docker (GL340)
Core concepts
• CKA objectives covered
• Kubernetes architecture
• Cluster communication
• Objects
• Object properties
• Labels and selectors
• Annotations
• Object management
• Image fundamentals
• Container fundamentals
• Pod fundamentals
• Working with pods
Installation
• CKA objectives covered
• Installation prerequisites
• Installation (single node)
• Installation (production)
• Client tool optimizations
• Installing HA control plane (demo)
Application Lifecycle Management
• CKA objectives covered
• Pod lifecycle
• Container lifecycle
• Init containers
• Container: command and args
• Container: defining environment
• ReplicaSet
• Deployments
• Working with deployments
• Deployment rollouts
Networking
• CKA objectives covered
• Network overview
• Service discovery and CoreDNS
• Container Network Interface (CNI)
• Services
• Ingress objects
Storage
• CKA objectives covered
• Storage
• Volume types
• Static volumes (demo)
• ConfigMaps
• Secrets
Security
• Controlling access to the Kubernetes API
• Admission controllers
• Pod security policies admission controller
• Default admission controllers
Scheduling
• CKA objectives covered
• Controlling and tracking resources
• Scheduler operation
• DaemonSet
• Node affinity and anti-affinity
• Pod affinity and anti-affinity
• Taints and tolerations
Jobs and CronJobs
• Jobs
• Cron Jobs
Linux Containers
• Application management landscape
• Application isolation
• Resource measurement and control
• Container security
• OverlayFS overview
• Container security
• Open container initiataive

Our programme focuses on practical knowledge and additionally prepares you for The Linux Foundation Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification examination.
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