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CKAD Deep Dive: Deployment Strategies, Application Security, and Observability

Application Environment, Configuration and Security (25%) is the highest-weight CKAD domain. Combined with Deployment (20%) and Observability (15%), these domains determine your score. This guide covers rolling updates, Helm, liveness probes, SecurityContext, and HPA.

The CKAD exam rewards candidates who can configure Kubernetes application resources quickly and correctly in a live environment. The three heaviest domains — Application Environment, Configuration and Security (25%), Deployment (20%), and Observability (15%) — share a common theme: the details that look minor in documentation become critical in exam tasks. A probe with the wrong port integer, a Helm …

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