Skill · Kubernetes · Understand, install and maintain a cluster
Use custom resources and operators
Extend the API with custom resources: discover and use CRDs, deploy an operator and work with the objects it manages.
Start lesson 1The Kubernetes domain
- 2 lessons
- ~1 h 00 of reading
- 3 quizzes
- 0 proof lab
The path
Where it comes from, where it leads
What you need to know first, where you stand on this skill, and what it opens next. Your status is computed in your browser, from what you have read and passed.
Before · 1 prerequisite
This skill, for you
Use custom resources and operators
Computing
It unlocks · nothing yet
No other skill requires it: it is an end-of-path skill.
The path through the foundations From the most upstream foundation to this skill: what is in place, what remains to read.
Lessons
How to learn it
2 lessons, about ~1 h 00, in program order. Each lesson ends with its quiz.
The program
2 lessons · ~1 h 00
Beyond the lessons
Assess, practise, pass the proof
Reading a lesson confirms nothing. A skill is confirmed by a passed quiz, practised in a guided lab, and put to the test by a challenge or a mission; an imported lab result is not verified by the site.
Assess yourself
3 quizzes
At the end of the lessons: passed at 70%, they confirm the skill.
Practice
No guided lab
No guided lab practices it yet.
Proof
No proof
Neither a challenge nor a mission with a proof yet.
Apply it on real infrastructure
Hands-on lessons: their labs count as practice and their quizzes assess you, without being required to acquire it.
Going further
Reference pages: they support the skill without teaching it, and do not count in your journey.
Placement test
Preparing the questions…
Your answers in detail
For each question asked: your answer, the correct answer, its explanation and the page to reread.
Around it
Who requires it, who teaches it
Required by
- Platform Engineer
- CKA
- CKAD
In red: the certification it prepares for.
Taught by
Same block · Understand, install and maintain a cluster
- Explain the architecture of a Kubernetes cluster
- Install a Kubernetes cluster
- Make the control plane of a kubeadm cluster highly available
- Control where Pods are placed
- Cap a namespace's resources
- Maintain and manage nodes without service interruption
- Back up and restore a cluster's state
- Detect and migrate deprecated APIs before an upgrade
- Upgrade a kubeadm cluster by one minor version