Application Design and Build

• Define, build and modify container images
• Understand Jobs and CronJobs
• Understand multi-container Pod design patterns (e.g. sidecar, init and others)
• Utilize persistent and ephemeral volumes

Application Environment, Configuration and Security

• Discover and use resources that extend Kubernetes (CRD)
• Understand authentication, authorization and admission control
• Understanding and defining resource requirements, limits and quotas
• Understand ConfigMaps
• Create & consume Secrets
• Understand ServiceAccounts
• Understand SecurityContexts

Application Deployment

• Use Kubernetes primitives to implement common deployment strategies (e.g. blue/ green or canary)
• Understand Deployments and how to perform rolling updates
• Use the Helm package manager to deploy existing packages

Services & Networking

• Demonstrate basic understanding of Network Policies
• Provide and troubleshoot access to applications via services
• Use Ingress rules to expose applications

Application observability and maintenance

• Understand API deprecations
• Implement probes and health checks
• Use provided tools to monitor Kubernetes applications
• Utilize container logs
• Debugging in Kubernetes