CNCF Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate Certification Course (KCNA) - Pass the Exam!

Prepare for the Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA) exam and pass! This certification demonstrates a user’s foundational knowledge and skills in Kubernetes and the wider cloud native ecosystem.

✏️ Andrew Brown and Marino Wijay created this course.
🐦 Andrew on Twitter:   / andrewbrown  
🐦 Marino on Twitter:   / virtualized6ix  

⭐️ Course Contents ⭐️
☁️ (0:00:00) Introduction
🎤 Introduction
🎤 Exam Guide Walkthrough
🎤 Practice Exam Preview

☁️ (0:22:31) Cloud Native Kubernetes Concepts
🎤 What is Cloud Native
🎤 Cloud Native vs Cloud Service Provider
🎤 Cloud Native Shared Responsibility Model
🎤 The Linux Foundation
🎤 Cloud Native Computing Foundation
🎤 Preview LF and CNCF Website Follow Along
🎤 Cloud Native Landscape
🎤 Cloud Native Landscape Follow Along
🎤 Cloud Native Trail Map
🎤 Cloud Native Trail Map Follow Along
🎤 VMs vs Containers
🎤 Micro services
🎤 Kubernetes
🎤 Kubernetes Components EDIT ENDING
🎤 Manifest Files in Kubernetes
🎤 Control Plane and Worker Nodes
🎤 Pods
🎤 API Server
🎤 Deployment
🎤 Replica Sets
🎤 Stateless vs Stateful
🎤 Stateful Sets
🎤 Namespaces
🎤 In Tree vs Out Tree
🎤 In Tree vs Out Free Follow Along
🎤 Endpoints and Endpoint Slices
🎤 Jobs and Cron Jobs
🎤 Kubernetes Dashboard

☁️ (1:36:41) Selectors
🎤 Selectors
🎤 Recommend Labels
🎤 Selecting Labels
🎤 Annotations

☁️ (1:42:33) Kubelet
🎤 PodSpecFile
🎤 gRPC
🎤 Kubelet

☁️ (1:50:15) KubeCTL
🎤 KubeCTL
🎤 KubeCTL Commands Ref Follow Along

☁️ (1:59:20) Distrubutions
🎤 MiniKube
🎤 K3s
🎤 Kind
🎤 MicroK8s
🎤 Lightweight K8s Distribution Comparison
🎤 Managed Kubernetes Providers
🎤 Management Layers
🎤 CNCF Certified Distribution Follow Along

☁️ (2:26:25) Runtimes
🎤 Container Runtime Interfaces
🎤 ContainerD
🎤 CRI O
🎤 Container Runtimes
🎤 CGroups
🎤 Linux Containers

☁️ (2:37:04) Storage
🎤 Container Storage Interface
🎤 Kubernetes Backing Store and etcd
🎤 Rook and MinIO
🎤 Volumes
🎤 Persistent Volume
🎤 Storage Classes
🎤 Persistent Volume Claim
🎤 ConfigMaps

☁️ (2:51:34) Service
🎤 Services
🎤 Traffic Policies
🎤 ClusterIP
🎤 NodePort
🎤 Load Balancer
🎤 Headless
🎤 ExternalName
🎤 KubeCTL Expose Command
🎤 BusyBox

☁️ (3:06:52) Networking
🎤 Ingress
🎤 DNS
🎤 Load Balancing
🎤 Probes
🎤 Netfilter
🎤 IPTables
🎤 IPVS
🎤 Various Proxies
🎤 kube proxy
🎤 Container Networking Interface
🎤 Service Mesh
🎤 Enovy

☁️ (3:33:05) Cluster Networking
🎤 NAT
🎤 Eth0 and Netwrok Namespace
🎤 Eth0 Network Namepsace P2
🎤 Cluster Networking
🎤 Container to Container Networking
🎤 Virtual Ethernet Devices
🎤 Pod to Pod Networking
🎤 Pod to Service Networking
🎤 Ingress Egress Internet to Cluster

☁️ (3:50:50) Security
🎤 4Cs
🎤 Infrastructure Security
🎤 AAA
🎤 Role based Access Controls
🎤 Role Configuration Example
🎤 Secrets Management
🎤 Network Policy
🎤 Calico
🎤 Anatomy of a Network Policy File
🎤 In Transit vs At Rest
🎤 Certificates and TLS
🎤 K8s Security Best Practices

☁️ (4:23:51) Autoscaling
🎤 Autoscaling
🎤 Scale vs Autoscale
🎤 KEDA

☁️ (4:28:23) Open Standards
🎤 Open Standards

☁️ (4:31:17) Goverance
🎤 Governance Structure
🎤 Memberships
🎤 Governing Board
🎤 Technical Oversight Committee
🎤 Special Interest Groups
🎤 End User Community
🎤 End User Technology Radar
🎤 CNCF Charter
🎤 CNCF Values
🎤 Goverance Follow Along
🎤 Kube Con
🎤 Kubecon CloudNativeCon Follow Along
🎤 CNCF Projects

☁️ (5:01:37) Serverless
🎤 Serverless
🎤 Cloud Native K8s Serverless
🎤 Function as a Service
🎤 Knative
🎤 Knative vs OpenFaaS

☁️ (5:10:29) Observability
🎤 The Pillars of Observability
🎤 Open Telemetry
🎤 Prometheus
🎤 Grafana
🎤 Traces and Spans
🎤 Cost Management
🎤 Kubernetes System Logs and Klogs

☁️ (5:24:45) Cloud Native Application Delivery
🎤 Testing and Chaos Testing
🎤 Helm
🎤 Kustomize
🎤 What is Infrastructure as Code
🎤 Popular IaC
🎤 IaC for Kubernetes
🎤 GitOps
🎤 CI CD
🎤 Argo vs Flux
🎤 Jenkins and JenkinsX
🎤 Circle CI

☁️ (5:44:03) Deployment Strategies
🎤 Deployment Strategies
🎤 Recreate
🎤 Rolling Update
🎤 Canary
🎤 Blue Green
🎤 A to B Testing
🎤 Dark Launches
🎤 Deployment History, Rollout, and Rollback

☁️ (5:58:59) Follow Along
5:58:59 🎤 Review of Light Weight Containers
6:05:14 🎤 Building an App Using Docker
6:29:29 🎤 Minkube
6:55:36 🎤 Kind
7:03:41 🎤 Microk8s
7:27:10 🎤 Kubectl Fix
7:28:38 🎤 Pod Communication via IP
7:36:44 🎤 Service ClusterIP
7:51:20 🎤 Service NodePort
7:59:14 🎤 Service LoadBalancer
8:09:19 🎤 Service Externalname
8:24:53 🎤 Ingress
8:38:51 🎤 Jobs
8:46:35 🎤 ReplicaSets
8:50:56 🎤 Scale and Autoscale
9:00:39 🎤 Configmap
9:23:29 🎤 Secrets
9:34:08 🎤 PV and PVC
9:56:30 🎤 NetPolicy
10:20:29 🎤 Knative
10:34:30 🎤 OpenFaaS
10:46:11 🎤 Helm
10:55:19 🎤 LinkerD
11:32:49 🎤 Google Kubernetes Engine
11:47:25 🎤 Azure Kubernetes Service
12:03:09 🎤 AWS Elastic Kuberenetes Service
12:35:47 🎤 IBM Cloud
12:48:18 🎤 Digital Ocean
13:10:22 🎤 CIVO
13:26:14 🎤 Namespaces
13:30:59 🎤 RBAC
13:58:00 🎤 KubeCTL Extra Commands