CKAD Preparation
Workshop

A three-day workshop specifically designed to prepare you for the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) exam. The focus is on the skills you need as a developer every day: deploying, configuring, observing, and troubleshooting applications. You cover all 5 exam domains: Application Design and Build (20%), Application Deployment (20%), Application Observability and Maintenance (15%), Application Environment, Configuration and Security (25%), and Services and Networking (20%). You start with the Kubernetes building blocks and working with kubectl, Krew, and K9s, deploy your first pod

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Workshop overview

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

CKAD Preparation

2.164,50 €per participant, excl. VAT

  • Duration: 3 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

Topics by day at a glance.

Day 1: Kubernetes fundamentals, Pods, and self-healing

  • Introduction to CKAD
  • The 5 CKAD Exam Domains in Detail
  • Imperative vs. Declarative Commands
  • kubectl Essentials for the Exam
  • Pods and Multi-Container Patterns (Design & Build 20%)
  • Self-healing in Kubernetes (Observability 15%)
  • Debugging with kubectl (Observability 15%)
Day 1

Day 2: Services, Deployments, and deployment strategies

  • Services and Networking (Networking 20%)
  • Replica Management in Practice (Deployment 20%)
  • ReplicaSets and Label Selectors (Deployment 20%)
  • The Deployment Object and Rollouts (Deployment 20%)
  • Deployment Strategies: Blue/Green and Canary (Deployment 20%)
  • Jobs and CronJobs API (Design & Build 20%)
Day 2

Day 3: Security, networking, storage, and exam strategies

  • Working with Namespaces (Configuration 25%)
  • Ingress API and Traffic Routing
  • Network Policies API (Networking 20%)
  • Container Interfaces and Storage Drivers (Configuration 25%)
  • Storage: PersistentVolumes, PVCs, and StorageClasses (Configuration 25%)
  • ConfigMaps and Secrets API (Configuration 25%)
  • ServiceAccounts API (Configuration 25%)
  • SecurityContexts and Pod Capabilities (Configuration 25%)
  • Introduction to the Helm Package Manager (Deployment 20%)
  • Introduction to Kustomize
  • Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs)
  • Exam Simulation and Common Pitfalls
  • Q&A (Conclusion)
Day 3
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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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