Long story short, since this is a Blog, albeit with an emphasis on technology here are some updates.
The family and I had to get out of “dodge”, even though that place was our home. We were staying in a community in Los Angeles, that although has now a no smoking policy, it did not in the past. Due to this little loop-hole, our neighbor during that stay, basically smoked 24/7 (probably more like 8-10 hours) a day. As much as I want to be that cool neighbor, not being able to leave or open your window due to that cripling fear of, will my place smell like cigarettes when I get back, was just plain no fun.
We tried our best to address this throughout our stay in our apartment complex, and after about 6 months, they got back to a solution: move out, and move in to another unit “free” of penalty.
So we did that, but the only feasible unit we found was only open a month later. Instead of staying any longer, the family and I decided to leave the city, and actually the whole country all together, and stay in an AirBnb in Jeju, South Korea!
My time there, I decided to just take the time study as much as possible.
When I arrived, I think I was about 60% done with my Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certificate, (yes, I know this article is about the CKAD) which actually…the later 40% took a lot longer than I had hoped.
With so many things going on, family, new location, etc., I decided to sort of rush the process. I had hoped to finish a lot more during my stay there, but I definitely overestimated my capabilities, and underestimated the tests.
I don’t have an extensive Linux background. Don’t get me wrong, I set up Arch, and use it only a regular basis, but not a background that requires me to be an administrator such as a job (if anyone is hiring, I am interested fyi). This means asides from studying for these tests, I was learning more commands.
A lot more.
So I finished my studies, (yay), only to find that when I went in to take my CKA, I had a ton of technical difficulties. Make sure you get a decent external camera, a decent dongle, a good keyboard, and a good mouse. If you use Mac, opt to not use a bluetooth mouse and keyboard!
Now you might think that reaching the Linux Foundation support is quick and easy. Not at all! It takes time, in fact 3-5 days, of which I did not want to spend sitting on my hands.
Now, after some studying and taking time to prepare for the CKAD, I am now a Certified Kubernetes Application Developer!
I will say that the CKAD required a lot more knowledge around the imperative commands, and knowing which one’s do not have, such as NetworkPolicies.
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