The SRE Learning Platform is an open-source hub designed to help IT engineers effectively prepare for the CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), CKS (Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist), and CKAD (Certified Kubernetes Application Developer) exams. Additionally, this platform offers invaluable hands-on experience with AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service), equipping users with practical insights for real-world applications. Whether you're aiming to validate your skills, boost your career prospects in Kubernetes administration, security, application development, or delve into AWS EKS, this platform provides hands-on labs, practice tests, and expert guidance to ensure certification success.

• Prepare for the CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator Exam
• Enhance your skills for the CKS: Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist Exam
• Excel in the CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer Exam

Master Kubernetes concepts, gain practical experience, and excel in the CKA, CKS, and CKAD exams with the SRE Learning Platform.

The repository is organized into the following sections:

• Makefile - File contains scenarios for launching hands-on labs and mock exams.
• tasks - Directory contains lab scenarios and mock exam scripts.
  • cka - Directory contains everything related to CKA.
    • labs - Directory contains hands-on labs for the CKA exam.
    • mock - Directory contains mock scripts for the CKA exam.
  • cks - Directory contains everything related to CKS.
    • labs - Directory contains hands-on labs for the CKS exam.
    • mock - Directory contains mock scripts for the CKS exam.
• terraform - Directory contains modules and Terraform environments.
  • environments - Directory contains terragrunt (terraform) environments.
  • modules - Directory contains terraform modules.

• terrafrom >= v1.1.7
• terragrunt >= v0.36.1
• aws IAM user + Access key (or IAM role ) with Admin privilege for VPC, EC2, IAM, EKS
• aws profile

• the platform uses aws to create following resources : vpc, subnets, security groups, ec2 (spot ), s3
• after you launch the scenarios the platform will create all the necessary resources and give access to k8s clusters.
• to create clusters the platform uses kubeadm
• you can easily add your own scenario using the already existing terraform module k8s_self_managment
• k8s_self_managment module supports versions:

k8s version  : [ 1.21 , 1.27 ]   https://kubernetes.io/releases/
Rintime :
    docker                   [1.21 , 1.23]
    cri-o                    [1.21 , 1.28]
    containerd               [1.21 , 1.28]   # cks default 1.27
    containerd_gvizor        [1.21 , 1.28]
OS for nodes  :
   ubuntu  :  20.04 LTS  ,  22.04 LTS   # cks default  20.04 LTS
CNI :  calico

• change backend_bucket ( region , backend_region optional ) in terragrunt.hcl :
• create aws ec2 key-pair with name=cks in our region (default region = eu-north-1)

Every command should be run from the project's root directory.

Video instruction for launching CKA mock exam

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