Exam-style tasks for the performance-based certifications, run on a real kubeadm cluster on your own Mac with the GoldenKube CLI and graded locally. Each card shows the task's domain, the cluster topology it needs, the recommended time and its points; the detail page has the full task text.
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Grant a ServiceAccount read access to pods in one namespace using a Role and a RoleBinding.
Single node · ~6 min · 6 points
goldenkube start cka-arc-001
Grant a namespaced ServiceAccount cluster-wide read access to nodes using a ClusterRole and ClusterRoleBinding.
Single node · ~6 min · 6 points
goldenkube start cka-arc-002
Take a snapshot of the cluster's etcd datastore and store it as a file on the control plane node.
Single node · ~8 min · 6 points
goldenkube start cka-arc-003
Run a Pod directly through the kubelet by placing a manifest in the static pod directory.
Single node · ~7 min · 6 points
goldenkube start cka-arc-005
Add a chart repository and install a chart as a named release into a namespace using Helm.
Single node · ~10 min · 7 points
goldenkube start cka-arc-007
Create a PersistentVolumeClaim on a named StorageClass and mount it in a Pod.
Single node · ~7 min · 6 points · Storage
goldenkube start cka-sto-001
Create a hostPath PersistentVolume and a PersistentVolumeClaim that binds to it.
Single node · ~7 min · 6 points
goldenkube start cka-sto-002
Make an existing StorageClass the cluster default and provision a PVC without naming a class.
Single node · ~8 min · 6 points · Storage
goldenkube start cka-sto-003
A Deployment's containers keep exiting; find out why and make them stay running.
Single node · ~6 min · 6 points
goldenkube start cka-trb-008
Create a ConfigMap and a Secret and consume them from a Pod as an environment variable and a mounted volume.
Single node · ~8 min · 6 points
goldenkube start cka-wkl-003
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