How I scored 96% in Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) Exam

Introduction

The aim of this article is to give you tips to clear your CKAD exam

I’ve been aware of the power of container technology since my retraining as a Big Data Engineer at ENSEEIHT (INP Toulouse) a year ago. Docker containers helped me pack not just my training code, but the entire dependency stack down to the hardware libraries.

When I had to think about deploying and serving my Machine Learning models, I got more and more curious about the different software architectural patterns. One of the most common ways in which modern software is organised is : Microservices Architecture. And Kubernetes (aka k8s) stands out as one of the best technologies to build such architectures since:

• It is a container orchestration framework
• It is defining, implementing and pushing microservices architectures and procedures to the limit
• It is open source, cloud agnostic and cloud / hybrid portable

I use Kubernetes in my day-to-day work as a Data Engineer and I am currently working on the stimulating…