Ace The Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) : Tips and Strategies

Prajwal T
2 min readJan 4, 2023

My experience with CKA

Whiplash analogy

What is CKA?

Certified Kubernetes Administration is a intermediate level certification from Cloud Computing Computing Foundation (CNCF) a sub-foundation of The Linux Foundation which focuses on Kubernetes Administration.

Who should take CKA?

Anyone who is interested in container orchestration. It covers wide range of topics from kubernetes cluster setup, cluster maintenance, application deployment and scaling, networking, storage, security topics.

What steps did I follow to crack CKA?

  1. Purchased the CKA voucher (It has 1 year validity with 1 free re-take only if the first attempt is failure.)
  2. Registered for KodeKloud course on Udemy. It has hands-on labs included.
  3. Making notes — I used Notion for note taking, I was taking notes in such a way to accomplish the task with imperative commands. Some Tips:
Delete the pod
# k delete pod --grace-period=0 --force

Creation of resources
# export do=’--dry-run=client -o yaml'
# k run pod nginx --image=nginx $do

4. Scheduled the exam to 30th day after I have completed the Udemy course. This…

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Prajwal T

Master’s in Information Security @ UCalgary | CCSK | CKA | GCP-PCA,ACE | RHCSA