Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) + Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) Exam Bundle

Bundle two certification exams and save! Please review the exam details, domains, competencies, and more by viewing the individual CKA and CKAD certification pages.

A certified K8s administrator has demonstrated the ability to do basic installation as well as configuring and managing production-grade Kubernetes clusters. They will have an understanding of key concepts such as Kubernetes networking, storage, security, maintenance, logging and monitoring, application lifecycle, troubleshooting, API object primitives and the ability to establish basic use-cases for end users. A Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) can design, build and deploy cloud-native applications for Kubernetes. They can define application resources and use Kubernetes core primitives to create/migrate, configure, expose and observe scalable applications.

The CKA certification is for Kubernetes administrators, cloud administrators and other IT professionals who manage Kubernetes instances. A Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) certification is for Kubernetes engineers, cloud engineers and other IT professionals responsible for building, deploying, and configuring cloud native applications with Kubernetes.

CKA was created by The Linux Foundation and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a part of their ongoing effort to help develop the Kubernetes ecosystem. The exam is an online, proctored, performance-based test that requires solving multiple tasks from a command line running Kubernetes. CKAD has been developed by The Linux Foundation and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), to help expand the Kubernetes ecosystem through standardized training and certification. This exam is an online, proctored, performance-based test that consists of a set of performance-based tasks (problems) to be solved in a command line.

Bundle two certification exams and save! Please review the exam details, domains, competencies, and more by viewing the individual CKA and CKAD certification pages.