First Steps to Becoming a Kubernetes Certified Application Developer

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A practical path to the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer exam with live terminals, hands‑on labs on Katacoda interactive browser labs, and focus on real commands: creating clusters, deployments, namespaces, services and using kubectl create/describe/rollout/scale/logs to manage apps. Demonstrations show scaling to five replicas, safe rolling updates and rollbacks, inspecting pod events and metrics, and editing YAML with a terminal editor. Exam covers seven core domains and gives a live cluster per station; exact questions remain under NDA.

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2. 2:17Goal of the Application Developer Exam
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4. 15:26How Do We Manage Updates

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