Skill · Kubernetes · Design Kubernetes workloads
Provide persistent storage to an application
Give an application storage that outlives its Pods: PersistentVolume, PersistentVolumeClaim, StorageClass and dynamic provisioning, access modes and retention.
Start lesson 1The Kubernetes domain
- 2 lessons
- ~2 h 55 of reading
- 2 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
Provide persistent storage to an application
Computing
It unlocks · 2 skills
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 ~2 h 55, in program order. Each lesson ends with its quiz.
The program
2 lessons · ~2 h 55
- 1Introduction au stockage (in French)· 85 min
- 2StorageClass (in French)· 90 min
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
2 quizzes
At the end of the lessons: passed at 70%, they confirm the skill.
Practice
2 guided labs
Proof
No proof
A practical proof is a challenge, a capstone or a declared lab.
Used by the mission “Bring an application back on a cluster”, which has its proof.
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
- Site Reliability Engineer
- CKA
- CKAD
- KCNA
In red: the certification it prepares for.
Taught by
Same block · Design Kubernetes workloads
- Compose a multi-container Pod: init, sidecar, shared volumes
- Run one-off and scheduled tasks (Job, CronJob)
- Make a workload reliable: health probes and resources
- Deploy a stateful application (StatefulSet)
- Run an agent on every node (DaemonSet)
- Scale an application automatically
- Keep an application available during disruptions