Course: Prep Course - Cilium Certified Associate (CCA) Certification

Notes for the Prep Course - Cilium Certified Associate (CCA) Certification course: 61 lessons across 10 sections.

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Introduction

• Course Introduction
• Exam Overview

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Cilium Overview

• Kubernetes Networking Overview
• Cilium Overview
• Architecture
• eBPF Basics

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Installing & Configuring Cilium

• Installation Overview
• Installation with CLI
• Demo Installation with CLI
• Installation with Helm
• Demo Installation with Helm
• Demo What was Installed
• Demo Updating Cilium Configuration
• Note About Cilium CLI

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Exploring Cilium

• Section Introduction
• IP Address Management IPAM
• Routing Modes
• Demo Routing Modes
• Kube Proxy less
• Demo Kube Proxy
• Terminology
• Packet Walk
• Cilium CLI

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Network Policy

• Security Introduction
• Network Policy Limitations
• Cilium Network Policy
• Demo Cilium Network Policy Part 1
• Demo Cilium Network Policy Part 2
• Policy Audit Mode

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Service Mesh

• Section Introduction
• What is a Service Mesh
• Cilium Service Mesh vs Others
• Cilium Ingress
• Demo Cilium Ingress
• Cilium Gateway API
• Demo Cilium Gateway API
• Network Policies with Ingress Gateway API
• Cilium Encryption
• Demo Cilium Encryption
• mTLS
• Demo mTLS

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Cluster Mesh

• Section Introduction
• Cluster Mesh Basics
• Global Service
• Demo Configuring Cluster Mesh
• Cluster Mesh Network Policy
• Demo Cluster Mesh Network Policy

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Observability

• Section Introduction
• Hubble Basics
• Prometheus and Grafana Metrics
• Demo Hubble

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BGP & External Networking

• Section Introduction
• Egress Gateway
• Demo Egress Gateway
• LoadBalancer IPAM
• Demo LoadBalancer IPAM
• BGPBorder Gateway Protocol
• Demo BGPBorder Gateway Protocol
• L2 Announcement
• Demo L2 Announcement

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Optimization

• Tuning