Training

As i said, the two exams are hand-on based labs. Practicing Kubernetes was my primary focus. I had the chance to adpot k8s in the company where i worked since the version 1.2 of Kubernetes.

I first started by the Scalable Microservices with Kubernetes training instructed by Kelsey Hightower and Carter Morgan from Google. Despite the fact that the training was not very advanced, but i found it very useful as good begining to discover the tool.

After that, i’ve tried to install a Kubernetes cluster in Amazon Web Services. Meanwhile, the are no automatic tool like kops or kube-aws to install the cluster automaticly by launching a set of command lines. Although it was a little bit complicated, I very appreciate the experience because i learned the core components of the tool and how to configured them seperately.

When I changed the company in mid-2017, I had not only the opportunity to have access to the CNCF official training for the CKA exam, but also i participated to rewarding missions to put in place Kubernetes in differents platforms from bare metal to cloud solutions.

To sum up this is my path to prepare the CKA and CKAD certifications: