Azure Kubernetes Service-AKS-Advanced
About this assessment
Welcome to the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Mastery Assessment, designed for IT professionals and cloud enthusiasts looking to validate and enhance their skills in managing containerized applications on Azure. This comprehensive evaluation covers essential areas such as setting up and managing an AKS cluster, deploying applications, and mastering Kubernetes core concepts. Dive into advanced topics like integrating with the Azure ecosystem, ensuring robust security and governance, and effectively monitoring and troubleshooting your AKS environment. Whether you're a DevOps engineer, cloud architect, or IT manager, this assessment will help you identify strengths and areas for improvement, ensuring you are well-equipped to leverage Azure Kubernetes Service to its full potential. Gain confidence in your abilities and take a step towards becoming an Azure Kubernetes expert.
Section 1: Set Up and Manage an AKS Cluster
This assessment evaluates creating AKS clusters via CLI, Terraform, and Portal; configuring node pools, autoscaling, availability zones; and performing zero-downtime upgrades.
Section 2: Containerizing and Deploying Applications
The section covers writing Dockerfiles including multi-stage builds, building and tagging images, logging into and pushing images to registries, deploying to AKS with Kubernetes manifests, and using Helm charts for versioned deployments.
Section 3: Integration with Azure Ecosystem
Questions covering Azure AD authentication and RBAC, monitoring integration with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and Application Insights, Key Vault secret management, and networking via Load Balancer, Private DNS, and VNet integration.
Section 4: Kubernetes Core Concepts and Management
This section covers Kubernetes primitives such as Pods, ReplicaSets, Deployments, Services, Ingress, ConfigMaps, Secrets, scaling methods, rolling updates and rollbacks, namespaces, and labels for isolation and organization.
Section 5: Azure Kubernetes Service Security and Governance
This section covers advanced tasks related to securing and governing Azure Kubernetes Service clusters, including applying RBAC and Azure Policy, configuring network policies, managing secrets, enforcing Pod Security Standards, enabling image scanning, and restricting cluster access with private endpoints and Azure Firewall.
Section 6: Monitoring, Logging, and Troubleshooting in Azure Kubernetes Service
This assessment covers configuring Azure Monitor for Containers, inspecting workloads using kubectl logs, describe, and exec commands, diagnosing failed pods including CrashLoopBackOff and ImagePullBackOff errors, analyzing metrics from Prometheus, and debugging networking and service routing issues.
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