The acronym is YACTR and it's pronounced yachter. YACHTER, y'all. Kept true to the k8s nautical theme by sheer luck 😆.
Guides, links, commands, and YAMLs to help prepare for the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) exam
- Kubernetes Docs
- Linux Foundation, The CKAD Exam
- Cloud Native Computing Foundation, The CKAD Exam
- Udemy - CKAD training from Mumshad Mannambeth
- Kim Wuestkamp on Codeburst, "CKAD Weekly Challenge Overview"
Good resources for being prepared to take the exam:
- Kim Wuestkamp on Codeburst, "The CKAD Browser Terminal"
- Haripraghash Subramaniam on Medium, "CKAD - My Journey"
- Atharva Chauthaiwale on Medium, "My CKAD Exam Experience"
- GitHub dgkanatsios/CKAD-exercises
- GitHub lucassha/CKAD-resources
- GitHub nikhilagrawal577/ckad-notes
Other training and review resources for k8s encountered (not CKAD-specific):
- GitHub ramitsurana/awesome-kubernetes
- Atharva Chauthaiwale on Medium, "Kubernetes Deep Dive"
- IBM Kubernetes 101
- Kubernetes the Hard Way, if you need to understand k8s under the hood, or want to get a jump-start on prepping for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam
- Kubernetes Up and Running a comprehensive k8s development book from the k8s creators
All k8s files adhere to the YAML spec:
- The YAML spec
- IBM - YAML in K8s
Working solely in a terminal during the exam, here are resources to learn how to use vim quickly and efficiently (emacs and nano are probably also allowed):
- Peter Jang on Medium, "How to Learn Vim: A Four Week Plan"
- Open Vim - Interactive Vim Browser-based Tutorial
$ vimtutorin your terminal
According to the CKAD Candidate Handbook from CNCF (see link above), tmux and screen are allowed to provide multiple panes in your terminal window.
- Hackernoon, "A Gentle Introduction to tmux"
- Peter Jang on Medium, "A Minimalist Guide to tmux"
- Ham Vocke, "A Quick and Easy Guide to tmux"