CKAD — Ingress & Network Policies
Ingress & Network Policies
Ingress and Network Policies are critical for the CKAD exam. Ingress provides HTTP/HTTPS routing from outside the cluster, and Network Policies control traffic flow between Pods.
This chapter covers Ingress resources, path and host-based routing, TLS termination, and NetworkPolicies from the Services & Networking domain (20%).
| Topic | What You’ll Learn |
|---|---|
| Ingress Basics | Why Ingress, how it works, basic Ingress, path types |
| Ingress Routing | Path-based, host-based, combined routing, default backend |
| Ingress TLS & Management | TLS termination, annotations, managing Ingress |
| Network Policies | Default deny, allow specific ingress/egress |
| Network Policy Selectors | Namespace selectors, AND vs OR, IP blocks |
| Hands-On Lab | Ingress routing, Network Policies, 5 practice questions |
