Regarding CKA course update

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#1

@mumshadgmail I am planning to get kodekloud pro plan but I see the CKA course(content and lab) is not update for v1.31 and moreover the exam will be updated with the new changes after 15/25 th on January.

Should I wait for the updated content or get the subscription on january ?

#2

The exam update – which will be 25 January 2025 at earliest – is a separate issue from the lab version. The things you get tested on for CKA only rarely change by exam version, since very little or nothing of recent versions of Kubernetes is visible at the level of the features you can actually see; most of the changes are low level and reflect how thing are implemented, rather than “API changes” you can see. Our labs are mostly at 1.30 right now, and there’s no visible difference between 1.30 and 1.31.

I’d expect that most of the exam related changes will land well before the exam updates, since most of the changes we expect to see are things that were previously changed for CKAD, so we can simply reuse lectures and labs from CKAD for CKA. The major feature that will be new is the Gateway API; lectures and labs for this are in progress.

If you want to get a head start on Gateway API, we have a repo pages put together by one of our engineers on how to set up Gateway API and create resources (similar to Ingress resources) that work with it.

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#3

Thank you @rob_kodekloud but there are multiple changes and I am planning to take the exam around february or march 2025 so will the lessons be updated by then with v1.31 and the practice labs and tests.

I see the early black friday sale ending, when will the actual black friday sale start ?

#4

So let’s look at the additions and how you can work round it. If you have a KK subscription of any kind, that will help since you can view other courses like CKAD

  • Helm/Kustomize - Topics are covered in CKAD course. It is almost certain that as part of CKA update, the CKAD lectures and labs will be copied in unchanged, so find these lectures and do them.
  • Network troubleshooting. Some of the questions in CKA Ultimate Mocks would prepare you for the slightly more advanced scenarios.
  • Gateway API - See my repo post as mentioned by Rob above.
  • Dynamic Storage - Read up in the kubernetes docs, especially on “Projected Volumes” and practice in a lab terminal
  • Workload and Scheduling - Node affinity works just like pod affinity in terms of how to form it. You’re just working with node labels instead of pod labels. Pod admission is covered in CKAD in section “Security”

We don’t know exactly when the course updates will be added, but they are being worked on.

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#5

Ok @Alistair_KodeKloud @rob_kodekloud I will slowly start with my preparation for CKA but I am willing to take the exam with the latest updates after Jan 25.