CKS October 2024 update

Hi, I’m planning to start studying CKS this month to take the exam late November (wait 50% CyberMonday discount) and I’ve just seen on CKS Linux Foundation exam page that it is going to be updated around Oct 15… how long will it take to have some studying material (even written, I know videos thake longer) in the CKS course that cover the upcoming updates?

Thank you in advance for any help.

If it’s any consolation I have to renew mine before the middle of November, so I may encounter new topics.

New topics would really only amount to one or two questions, so if you know the rest really well, you will still pass.

They were supposed to be updating it on Sept 12th, but that didn’t happen :wink:

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Exam has been updated

Yes, it has. killer.sh has also been updated for the new material; we’ll follow soon.

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Hi @rob_kodekloud,
Do you know when will it be updated?
Im asking because i can’t find any resource that explain the topics

thank you

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Yes I have scheduled the exam, but kodekloud has not updated the new topics yet such as

  • Cilium: Pod-to-Pod encryption
  • Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
  • Enabling TLS on Ingerss

Give another look at the sections “Minimize Microservice Vulnerability” and “Supply Chain Security” – new lectures have very recently been added to cover SBOM and Cillium. I believe that TLS in Ingress was covered previously, although I’m trying to find the exact section. This was done without telling the support people, so I’m not surprised you haven’t heard of this yet either.

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UPDATE: @rob_kodekloud it was sufficient to wait for the next video to find the update I was talking about, nice job :relaxed::v:t2:

I think that video content should be reviewed once every few months to add some annotations for example during the recap about ServiceAccounts where the video shows the token which is automatically created along with the SA, which is not true anymore since 1.24. For SAs is not a big issue, I remember that it was removed etc, but for other content that is new for someone taking CKS exam and following the course it is important to have at least some text after the videos that points out what has been changed since the publication of a specific lesson :slight_smile:

@gianni.costanzi

The following videos have been added/updated in the CKS course. Additional labs should be added in a week or two.

Securing Node Metadata in Kubernetes
Reasons to Secure Node Metadata​
Protection Strategies
Auditing
Overview of Multi-Tenancy in Kubernetes
Different types of Multi-Tenancy in Kubernetes​
Levels of Isolation in Kubernetes (Namespace, Pod, Node)
Control Plane Isolation​
Understanding Resource Quotas
Data Plane Isolation​
Data Plane Isolation​ - Network
Data Plane Isolation​ - Storage
Using Node Pools and Taints/Tolerations for Isolation
Additional Considerations​ - API Priority & Fairness
Quality of Service
DNS in Multi-Tenant Environments
Pod-to-Pod Encryption
Introduction to Cilium
Understanding Cilium’s Architecture
Writing Effective Encryption Policies
Overview of Supply Chain Security
Risks of Inadequate Supply Chain Management​
What is SBOM and Why It’s Important
SBOM Format
SBOM Workflow​
Introduction to KubeLinter

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Wow, amazing. Thanks

Great , thanks for the info. Its worth adding that to the Course details Page Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) Course | KodeKloud
with the tag “Oct2024 update”

Hi,
Thank you for the answer,
Will you guys update the mock exams as well?

There will be more labs added. Whether the mock exams will be updated, I don’t know