Kubernetes and Cloud-Native Associate (KCNA) → <div class="k8s-cloud-native-curriculum"> <h4 style="font-weight: 500; color: #333;">01. Kubernetes Fundamentals</h4> <ul> <li>What are Containers</li> <li>Container Orchestration</li> <li>Kubernetes Architecture</li> <li>Runtime – CRI (Container Runtime Interface)</li> <li>Docker vs. ContainerD</li> </ul> <h4 style="font-weight: 500; color: #333;">02. Kubernetes Resources</h4> <ul> <li>Pods and Pods with YAML</li> <li>ReplicaSets and Deployments</li> <li>Deployments – Rolling Updates and Rollbacks</li> <li>Imperative vs. Declarative Management</li> <li>Kubectl Apply Command</li> <li>Kubernetes Namespaces</li> </ul> <h4 style="font-weight: 500; color: #333;">03. Scheduling</h4> <ul> <li>Manual Scheduling</li> <li>Labels and Selectors</li> <li>Taints and Tolerations</li> <li>Node Selectors and Node Affinity</li> <li>Taints and Tolerations vs. Node Affinity</li> <li>Resource Limits and Quotas</li> <li>DaemonSets and Static Pods</li> <li>Multiple Schedulers and Scheduler Profiles</li> </ul> <h4 style="font-weight: 500; color: #333;">04. Container Orchestration – Security</h4> <ul> <li>Security Primitives and Authentication</li> <li>TLS in Kubernetes – Certificate Creation</li> <li>KubeConfig and API Groups</li> <li>Authorization: RBAC and Cluster Roles</li> <li>Service Accounts</li> <li>Image Security and Security Contexts</li> <li>Network Policies</li> </ul> <h4 style="font-weight: 500; color: #333;">05. Container Orchestration – Networking</h4> <ul> <li>Cluster Networking and Pod Networking</li> <li>CNI in Kubernetes (CNI Weave)</li> <li>DNS in Kubernetes</li> <li>Ingress Controllers and Resources</li> </ul> <h4 style="font-weight: 500; color: #333;">06. Container Orchestration – Service Mesh</h4> <ul> <li>Kubernetes Services</li> <li>Sidecar Pattern and Envoy Proxy</li> <li>Monoliths & Microservices</li> <li>Service Mesh Concepts and Istio</li> <li>Installing Istio and Deploying Applications</li> </ul> <h4 style="font-weight: 500; color: #333;">07. Container Orchestration – Storage</h4> <ul> <li>Introduction to Docker and Kubernetes Storage</li> <li>Volume Driver Plugins and CSI (Container Storage Interface)</li> <li>Volumes, Persistent Volumes (PV), and PVCs</li> <li>Storage Class and Dynamic Provisioning</li> </ul> <h4 style="font-weight: 500; color: #333;">08. Cloud Native Architecture</h4> <ul> <li>Autoscaling: HPA, VPA, and Cluster Autoscaler</li> <li>Serverless on Kubernetes</li> <li>Kubernetes Enhancement Proposals (KEPs) and SIGs</li> <li>Open Standards</li> </ul> <h4 style="font-weight: 500; color: #333;">09. Cloud Native Observability</h4> <ul> <li>Observability Fundamentals: SLO, SLA, and SLI</li> <li>Prometheus: Architecture, Configuration, and Metrics</li> <li>Monitoring Containers and Kubernetes Clusters</li> <li>Cost Management Strategies</li> </ul> <h4 style="font-weight: 500; color: #333;">10. Cloud Native Application Delivery</h4> <ul> <li>Application Delivery Fundamentals</li> <li>What is GitOps and GitOps Principles</li> <li>Push vs. Pull-based Deployments</li> <li>CI/CD with GitOps (ArgoCD Walkthrough)</li> <li>CI/CD Pipeline Demo</li> </ul> </div>

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