Exam
CKA
CKA · Workloads & Scheduling
Taints and Tolerations
A worker node has been tainted with dedicated=gpu:NoSchedule and labeled gpu=true. Task: Create a pod named gpu-pod in namespace cka-taints that: Uses image nginx:1.25 Has a toleration for the taint…
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The task
A worker node has been tainted with dedicated=gpu:NoSchedule and labeled gpu=true.
Task: Create a pod named gpu-pod in namespace cka-taints that:
- Uses image
nginx:1.25 - Has a toleration for the taint
dedicated=gpu:NoSchedule - Has a nodeSelector that targets nodes with label
gpu=true - Is in a Running state
What this tests
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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