CNCF Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate Certification Course(KCNA)

Prepare for the Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA) exam and pass! This certification demonstrates a user’s foundational knowledge and skills in Kubernetes and the wider cloud native ecosystem.

✏️ Andrew Brown and Marino Wijay created this course. 🐦 Andrew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/andrewbrown 🐦 Marino on Twitter: https://twitter.com/virtualized6ix

⭐️ Course Contents ⭐️ ☁️ (0:00:00) Introduction 🎤 Introduction 🎤 Exam Guide Walkthrough 🎤 Practice Exam Preview

☁️ (0:22:31) Cloud Native Kubernetes Concepts 🎤 What is Cloud Native 🎤 Cloud Native vs Cloud Service Provider 🎤 Cloud Native Shared Responsibility Model 🎤 The Linux Foundation 🎤 Cloud Native Computing Foundation 🎤 Preview LF and CNCF Website Follow Along 🎤 Cloud Native Landscape 🎤 Cloud Native Landscape Follow Along 🎤 Cloud Native Trail Map 🎤 Cloud Native Trail Map Follow Along 🎤 VMs vs Containers 🎤 Micro services 🎤 Kubernetes 🎤 Kubernetes Components EDIT ENDING 🎤 Manifest Files in Kubernetes 🎤 Control Plane and Worker Nodes 🎤 Pods 🎤 API Server 🎤 Deployment 🎤 Replica Sets 🎤 Stateless vs Stateful 🎤 Stateful Sets 🎤 Namespaces 🎤 In Tree vs Out Tree 🎤 In Tree vs Out Free Follow Along 🎤 Endpoints and Endpoint Slices 🎤 Jobs and Cron Jobs 🎤 Kubernetes Dashboard

☁️ (1:36:41) Selectors 🎤 Selectors 🎤 Recommend Labels 🎤 Selecting Labels 🎤 Annotations

☁️ (1:42:33) Kubelet 🎤 PodSpecFile 🎤 gRPC 🎤 Kubelet

☁️ (1:50:15) KubeCTL 🎤 KubeCTL 🎤 KubeCTL Commands Ref Follow Along

☁️ (1:59:20) Distrubutions 🎤 MiniKube 🎤 K3s 🎤 Kind 🎤 MicroK8s 🎤 Lightweight K8s Distribution Comparison 🎤 Managed Kubernetes Providers 🎤 Management Layers 🎤 CNCF Certified Distribution Follow Along

☁️ (2:26:25) Runtimes 🎤 Container Runtime Interfaces 🎤 ContainerD 🎤 CRI O 🎤 Container Runtimes 🎤 CGroups 🎤 Linux Containers

☁️ (2:37:04) Storage 🎤 Container Storage Interface 🎤 Kubernetes Backing Store and etcd 🎤 Rook and MinIO 🎤 Volumes 🎤 Persistent Volume 🎤 Storage Classes 🎤 Persistent Volume Claim 🎤 ConfigMaps

☁️ (2:51:34) Service 🎤 Services 🎤 Traffic Policies 🎤 ClusterIP 🎤 NodePort 🎤 Load Balancer 🎤 Headless 🎤 ExternalName 🎤 KubeCTL Expose Command 🎤 BusyBox

☁️ (3:06:52) Networking 🎤 Ingress 🎤 DNS 🎤 Load Balancing 🎤 Probes 🎤 Netfilter 🎤 IPTables 🎤 IPVS 🎤 Various Proxies 🎤 kube proxy 🎤 Container Networking Interface 🎤 Service Mesh 🎤 Enovy

☁️ (3:33:05) Cluster Networking 🎤 NAT 🎤 Eth0 and Netwrok Namespace 🎤 Eth0 Network Namepsace P2 🎤 Cluster Networking 🎤 Container to Container Networking 🎤 Virtual Ethernet Devices 🎤 Pod to Pod Networking 🎤 Pod to Service Networking 🎤 Ingress Egress Internet to Cluster

☁️ (3:50:50) Security 🎤 4Cs 🎤 Infrastructure Security 🎤 AAA 🎤 Role based Access Controls 🎤 Role Configuration Example 🎤 Secrets Management 🎤 Network Policy 🎤 Calico 🎤 Anatomy of a Network Policy File 🎤 In Transit vs At Rest 🎤 Certificates and TLS 🎤 K8s Security Best Practices

☁️ (4:23:51) Autoscaling 🎤 Autoscaling 🎤 Scale vs Autoscale 🎤 KEDA

☁️ (4:28:23) Open Standards 🎤 Open Standards

☁️ (4:31:17) Goverance 🎤 Governance Structure 🎤 Memberships 🎤 Governing Board 🎤 Technical Oversight Committee 🎤 Special Interest Groups 🎤 End User Community 🎤 End User Technology Radar 🎤 CNCF Charter 🎤 CNCF Values 🎤 Goverance Follow Along 🎤 Kube Con 🎤 Kubecon CloudNativeCon Follow Along 🎤 CNCF Projects

☁️ (5:01:37) Serverless 🎤 Serverless 🎤 Cloud Native K8s Serverless 🎤 Function as a Service 🎤 Knative 🎤 Knative vs OpenFaaS

☁️ (5:10:29) Observability 🎤 The Pillars of Observability 🎤 Open Telemetry 🎤 Prometheus 🎤 Grafana 🎤 Traces and Spans 🎤 Cost Management 🎤 Kubernetes System Logs and Klogs

☁️ (5:24:45) Cloud Native Application Delivery 🎤 Testing and Chaos Testing 🎤 Helm 🎤 Kustomize 🎤 What is Infrastructure as Code 🎤 Popular IaC 🎤 IaC for Kubernetes 🎤 GitOps 🎤 CI CD 🎤 Argo vs Flux 🎤 Jenkins and JenkinsX 🎤 Circle CI

☁️ (5:44:03) Deployment Strategies 🎤 Deployment Strategies 🎤 Recreate 🎤 Rolling Update 🎤 Canary 🎤 Blue Green 🎤 A to B Testing 🎤 Dark Launches 🎤 Deployment History, Rollout, and Rollback

☁️ (5:58:59) Follow Along 5:58:59 🎤 Review of Light Weight Containers 6:05:14 🎤 Building an App Using Docker 6:29:29 🎤 Minkube 6:55:36 🎤 Kind 7:03:41 🎤 Microk8s 7:27:10 🎤 Kubectl Fix 7:28:38 🎤 Pod Communication via IP 7:36:44 🎤 Service ClusterIP 7:51:20 🎤 Service NodePort 7:59:14 🎤 Service LoadBalancer 8:09:19 🎤 Service Externalname 8:24:53 🎤 Ingress 8:38:51 🎤 Jobs 8:46:35 🎤 ReplicaSets 8:50:56 🎤 Scale and Autoscale 9:00:39 🎤 Configmap 9:23:29 🎤 Secrets 9:34:08 🎤 PV and PVC 9:56:30 🎤 NetPolicy 10:20:29 🎤 Knative 10:34:30 🎤 OpenFaaS 10:46:11 🎤 Helm 10:55:19 🎤 LinkerD 11:32:49 🎤 Google Kubernetes Engine 11:47:25 🎤 Azure Kubernetes Service 12:03:09 🎤 AWS Elastic Kuberenetes Service 12:35:47 🎤 IBM Cloud 12:48:18 🎤 Digital Ocean 13:10:22 🎤 CIVO 13:26:14 🎤 Namespaces 13:30:59 🎤 RBAC 13:58:00 🎤 KubeCTL Extra Commands