The 5 kubectl Commands That Solve 80% of CKA Exam (2026)

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🚀 Struggling with the CKA exam? Master these 5 kubectl commands and you'll be able to solve 80% of what the exam throws at you. In this video, I break down the 5 most essential kubectl commands for the CKA certification — with real syntax, real use cases, and exactly when to use each one during the exam. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ COMMANDS COVERED ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 01 → kubectl run — Create pods instantly, no YAML needed 02 → kubectl logs --previous — Debug crashed containers like a pro 03 → kubectl auth can-i — Verify RBAC permissions in seconds 04 → kubectl explain — Your built-in API reference, no internet needed 05 → kubectl get events — Turn cluster chaos into chronological clarity ## ⚡ Quick Aliases (Add to .bashrc/.zshrc) ```bash alias k=kubectl alias krun="kubectl run --dry-run=client -o yaml" alias klogs="kubectl logs --previous" alias kcan="kubectl auth can-i" alias kexp="kubectl explain" alias kevents="kubectl get events --sort-by='.lastTimestamp'" ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📁 FREE RESOURCES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⭐ GitHub Repo (questions, manifests & cheatsheets): → https://github.com/Ghanathey-Neelesh-Kumar/cka-prep-series-2026 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 ABOUT THIS SERIES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This is part of the CKA Prep Series 2026 — a complete hands-on preparation series where I solve real CKA exam questions live, step by step, every single week. Every episode includes: ✅ A real exam-style question ✅ A broken manifest to fix yourself ✅ A full live terminal walkthrough ✅ Everything uploaded to the GitHub repo If you're preparing for the CKA — subscribe and hit the bell. New episode every week. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 CONNECT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GitHub → https://github.com/Ghanathey-Neelesh-Kumar/cka-prep-series-2026 LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/neeleshghanathey/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #CKA #Kubernetes #kubectl #DevOps #CKAExam #CloudNative #KubernetesCertification #CNCF #CKA2026 #LearnKubernetes