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CKAWorkloads & SchedulingTwo nodesEasy

DaemonSet on every node

Scenario cka-wkl-004 · about 6 minutes · 5 points · 7 grader checks

Run one Pod per node, including the control plane, with a DaemonSet.

  • daemonset
  • toleration
  • control-plane
  • workloads

What you will practise

  • Author a DaemonSet manifest
  • Schedule onto tainted control-plane nodes
  • Verify desired vs ready DaemonSet pods

Start this lab

With the CLI installed and signed in, this command provisions a two nodes cluster on your Mac, applies the scenario setup and prints the task below.

goldenkube start cka-wkl-004

Task

The task text exactly as the CLI shows it. Solve it on the cluster, then run goldenkube submit.

In namespace "apps" (create it if missing), create a DaemonSet named "node-agent" using image busybox:1.36 with the command "sleep infinity". It must run one Pod on EVERY node of the cluster, including the control plane node. All its Pods must be Ready.

Requirements and details

Certification
CKA · Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Domain
Workloads & Scheduling
Difficulty
Easy
Cluster topology
Two nodes
Cluster features
None beyond the base cluster
Recommended time
6 minutes
Points
5
Grader checks
7
Kubernetes version
1.37
Minimum CLI version
0.1.0
Scenario version
1
Published

Grading runs locally: 7 state checks read your cluster when you submit; the scenario passes when every check passes. Hints, the reference solution and the check definitions are available only inside the CLI, not on this page.

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