Summary

This chapter covers one of the highest-value topics in the CKA exam, which is Kubernetes storage. Over the last three years, the CKA exam has raised more and more attention toward Kubernetes storage, where it previously only scratched the surface and now focuses on various use cases of the stateful application deployment. Learning this part may not seem the most crucial for Kubernetes administrators at the moment, but it will take off more quickly once we have more and more cloud-native databases adopted by enterprise-grade customers. Having a solid knowledge of storage will add value to your existing Kubernetes administration skills. If you can confidently play with the exercises in this chapter, it will increase your success rate in the actual CKA exam, as storage-related questions are usually simpler but higher value compared to other cluster maintenance task-related questions in the previous chapters.

In the next chapter, Securing Kubernetes, we will dive into some...