Excercise will require the tooling listed below. Ensure that all of those tools have been installed before attending the training if you want to following along. The training does not reserve time for setting up or verifying the installed tools or their respective versions.
Attendees will need access to a Kubernetes cluster, either local or remote. Align the version of Kubernetes with version used during the exam. The recommended setup for this course is to install minikube and kubectl. Minikube comes with a pre-installed Docker daemon.
Alternatively, you may also go with Docker Desktop which is available for Mac and Windows. Docker Desktop provides an option to start a fully functional Kubernetes environment.
Some of the exercises use an existing cluster setup as the starting point. Install the latest version of the tools Vagrant and VirtualBox.
The certification exam uses "Bourne Again shell" (bash) as the shell environment. Bash needs to be available on your development environment. You can check your shell by running the command echo $0.
This course is going to use vim as the editor for text files. Install the editor on your development environment. You may opt for other editors. Some test takers prefer nano as an alternative to vim.