I was playing around with the TLS certificates in my Linux Academy cluster and wanted an easy way to check all of the expiration dates without having to check each certificate individually. I put together this bash one-liner you might find helpful.
Month: January 2020
Static Pods
Static pods are not managed by the kube-apiserver, but rather by the kubelet itself. While there is no Deployment, ReplicaSet, etc., the kubelet will work to keep the pod(s) up and running.
Upgrading Your Cluster
One of the things I noticed while studying for my CKAD exam is that my test cluster was a bit behind. It’s been up and running for over 200 days at this point and I’m several versions behind. Version 1.17 is out, the exam was based on 1.16, and I’m running 1.13.
NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION runlevl41c.mylabserver.com Ready master 207d v1.13.5 runlevl42c.mylabserver.com Ready <none> 207d v1.13.5 runlevl43c.mylabserver.com Ready <none> 207d v1.13.5
How I Passed the CKAD Exam
Updated 12/2020
Last year, I decided that since I’d been working on pushing my employer to embrace a Cloud-native mentality that I should lead by example and get certified. We had chosen Kubernetes as our base container management platform and ultimately inked a deal with Red Hat to roll out OpenShift throughout the enterprise.
If you’ve read the blog for any time, you’ll remember that I was originally pursuing RHEL certification. At the time, even though I was in a development role, I was finding myself needing more and more Linux skills. However, my role transitioned to a dedicated focus on Cloud technologies. I abandoned RHEL and began focusing on Kubernetes. However, it wasn’t until about November of this year that I really buckled down to prepare.
In the spirit of openness, I’ll confess that I’ve had the benefit of spending the past several months working in a dedicated fashion deploying multiple OpenShift clusters. This has involved a great deal of tweaking, testing, and troubleshooting which has provided invaluable real-world, hands-on experience working with the Kubernetes system. Now, with that out of the way, I thought I’d share my personal take on how I prepared…and passed…the CKAD exam.