Strengthen recall

Kubernetes & AKS Academy: Rapid-recall flashcards

Review concise prompts before labs, interviews and design discussions.

Prompt

Kubernetes Architecture

Recall:

Understand API server, scheduler, controllers, etcd, kubelet and reconciliation.

Prompt

Pods

Recall:

Use the smallest deployable unit correctly and understand lifecycle behaviour.

Prompt

ReplicaSets

Recall:

Understand replica control and why deployments normally own ReplicaSets.

Prompt

Deployments

Recall:

Perform rolling releases, rollbacks and controlled application updates.

Prompt

DaemonSets

Recall:

Run node-level agents for logging, networking and security.

Prompt

StatefulSets

Recall:

Manage stable identity, ordered rollout and persistent storage.

Prompt

Services

Recall:

Provide stable discovery using ClusterIP, NodePort and LoadBalancer.

Prompt

Ingress

Recall:

Route external HTTP traffic with controllers, TLS and host/path rules.

Prompt

Volumes

Recall:

Use ephemeral and persistent storage with PVs, PVCs and storage classes.

Prompt

ConfigMaps

Recall:

Externalise non-secret application configuration safely.

Prompt

Secrets

Recall:

Handle sensitive configuration while recognising base64 is not encryption.

Prompt

AKS Operations

Recall:

Operate node pools, upgrades, identity, networking, policy and monitoring.

Prompt

Kubernetes Troubleshooting

Recall:

Use events, logs, describe, probes, DNS and network checks systematically.