CKA Preparation
Workshop

A four-day workshop specifically designed to prepare you for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam. Unlike developer certifications, CKA focuses on the skills you need as a cluster administrator: build clusters from scratch, create backups, and troubleshoot issues in production environments. You cover all 5 exam domains: Troubleshooting (30%), Cluster Architecture (25%), Services & Networking (20%), Workloads & Scheduling (15%), and Storage (10%). Starting with cluster installation via kubeadm, you learn to initialize control planes, join worker nodes, and configure CNI plugins. Yo

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Workshop overview

Duration, per-participant price and logistics for CKA Preparation.

CKA Preparation

2.886,00 €per participant, excl. VAT

  • Duration: 4 days (09:00 – 16:00 CET/CEST)

  • Participants: Max. 8 people

  • Format: Online or on-site

  • Language: German (English on request)

  • Certificate: ayedo certificate of attendance, CNCF exam preparation

On-site options

  • Live online or on-site at your location

  • In-house: content, duration and focus can be tailored

  • Flexible dates, from 1 participant

  • German; English on request

  • Preconfigured cloud lab (also on-site)

  • Open groups: max. 8 people

  • Seat price same as online: €721.50 × days, excl. VAT

  • On-site in-house: individual quote (travel/logistics as incurred)

  • No published flat on-site surcharge

  • You provide the training room and internet

  • Open sessions: 09:00–16:00 (CET/CEST)

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Curriculum

Day-by-day agenda and topics from the official syllabus.

Day 1: Cluster installation, administration, and backup with kubeadm

  • CKA Certification Overview
  • Understanding Kubernetes Architecture (Cluster Architecture 25%)
  • Container Runtimes: containerd and CRI-O
  • Working Efficiently with kubectl
  • Managing Multiple Clusters via kubectl Contexts
  • Building a Cluster from Scratch with kubeadm (Cluster Architecture 25%)
  • Updating Clusters Without Downtime (Cluster Architecture 25%)
  • etcd Backup and Cluster Restore (Cluster Architecture 25%)
Day 1

Day 2: Pods, networking, high availability, and Deployments

  • Multi-Container Pods and Health Checks (Workloads 15%)
  • Defining Requests and Limits for Pods (Workloads 15%)
  • Deployments and Rolling Updates (Workloads 15%)
  • Systematic Troubleshooting in the Cluster (Troubleshooting 30%)
  • Services: Stable Addresses for Pods (Services & Networking 20%)
  • CNI Plugins and Pod Communication (Services & Networking 20%)
  • Jobs and CronJobs for Batch Tasks (Workloads 15%)
  • DaemonSets for System-Wide Services (Workloads 15%)
Day 2

Day 3: Ingress, network policies, and persistent storage

  • Namespaces, ResourceQuotas, and LimitRanges (Cluster Architecture 25%)
  • Ingress & Gateway API for External Access (Networking 20%)
  • Network Policies as a Pod Firewall (Services & Networking 20%)
  • Volumes and Volume Types (Storage 10%)
  • PersistentVolumes and Dynamic Provisioning (Storage 10%)
  • StatefulSets for Stateful Apps (Storage 10%)
Day 3

Day 4: Configuration, scheduling, and CKA exam preparation

  • Injecting ConfigMaps and Secrets Securely
  • RBAC: Controlling Access Rights in the Cluster (Cluster Architecture 25%)
  • Controlling Pod Scheduling with Taints and Affinity (Workloads 15%)
  • Deploying Applications with Helm
  • Adapting Environments with Kustomize
  • Exam Strategy and Killer.sh Simulator
  • Your Personal Learning Plan
Day 4
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Workshop schedule

Published daily rhythm. Topics are listed in the curriculum.

09:00–16:00 (CET/CEST)

Official window for open sessions.

Frame

09:00 – Introductions

On day 1: meet the instructor and participants, plus the agenda and workshop structure.

Day 1

09:00 – Q&A

On later days, resolve open questions from the previous day before the day’s topics (usually 09:00–09:30 or 09:00–10:00).

Later days

Content blocks follow the curriculum

Theory and hands-on in the morning and afternoon blocks. The topic list is in the curriculum above.

Topics

12:00–13:00 – Lunch

A shared break before the afternoon.

Break

16:00–16:30 – Q&A

End of the day: questions, exchange and wrap-up.

Close
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Prerequisites

What participants should bring.

Hardware

Your own notebook (Linux, macOS or Windows) with permission to install software. Devices available at extra cost.

HardwareNotebook

Environment

Each participant works in a provided cloud lab. Local installation of the training stack is not required.

LabCloud

Prerequisites

Basic Linux/terminal skills are helpful.

Prerequisites
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