PriorityClass Configuration

A Deployment named busybox-logger exists in the priority namespace. An existing user-defined PriorityClass user-existing has value 10000.

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The task

A Deployment named busybox-logger exists in the priority namespace.

An existing user-defined PriorityClass user-existing has value 10000.

Task:

Create a new PriorityClass named high-priority with a value one less than the highest existing user-defined value (i.e. 9999)
Patch the busybox-logger Deployment to use high-priority

Exam

CKA

Domain

Workloads & Scheduling

Grading

Programmatic · partial credit

Reference

Kubernetes docs ↗

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Run and schedule workloads - deployments, autoscaling, taints and tolerations, affinity, and resource limits. On the CKA exam, Workloads & Scheduling tasks are graded purely on what you build in the cluster - not multiple choice - so the only way to get faster is to do them on a real cluster against a clock.

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