KCNA Cloud Native Architecture Practice Question
Which CNCF project is primarily focused on providing a unified way to define and manage cloud-native applications using declarative configuration stored in Git?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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ArgoCD
GitOps uses Git as the single source of truth for declarative infrastructure and application configuration. ArgoCD is a CNCF graduated project that implements GitOps for Kubernetes. Flux is also a GitOps tool but ArgoCD is more widely recognized as the primary GitOps project.
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Helm
Why it's wrong here
Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes, not a GitOps tool per se, though it can be used with GitOps.
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ArgoCD
Why this is correct
ArgoCD is a declarative GitOps CD tool for Kubernetes that synchronizes application state with Git repositories.
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Prometheus
Why it's wrong here
Prometheus is a monitoring and alerting toolkit, not a GitOps tool.
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Envoy
Why it's wrong here
Envoy is a proxy used in service meshes, not a GitOps tool.
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Cloud Native Architecture and Concepts
Key term
ReplicaSet and Replication
A ReplicaSet ensures a specified number of identical pod instances are running at all times in Kubernetes, using replication to maintain availability and stability.
Key term
GitOps
GitOps is a way to manage and automate cloud infrastructure and applications by using a Git repository as the single source of truth, where all changes are made through pull requests and automatically applied by a software agent.
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