Kubernetes Training and Certification
A staggering 84% of organizations surveyed by the CNCF in their recent annual report are using or considering Kubernetes, highlighting its massive adoption across industries. As companies leverage Kubernetes to manage workloads in on-prem, hybrid, or cloud environments, mastering it becomes an essential skill for IT professionals, Software Developers, Data Scientists, DevOps and DevSecOps engineers, QA, and Software testing professionals.
We understand your time is valuable! Our years of experience working with enterprises have shown us the challenges of dedicating time to skill development. However, overlooking this investment can, in the long run, hinder your team's ability to keep up with the latest industry trends, utilizing cutting-edge technology to improve efficiency and productivity and reduce release costs and deployment times.
According to the most recent CNCF Annual Report
Kubernetes adoption and challenges across the globe
Top Challenges for Using/Deploy Containers?
Our team has the skills and experience you need
Our trainers and consultants have decades of experience in training, consulting, designing, building, and maintaining large-scale production cloud environments.
We hold some leading IT certifications and continuously adopt the latest cutting-edge technologies.
You need training: We deliver when and where you need it
With work models shifting more towards hybrid and remote work, keeping the skills of entire teams consistent could be challenging. We understand that challenge. No matter your work model: on-site, remote, or hybrid, we’ve got you covered. We offer training in various timezones and geographic regions, in person, virtual, or a combination of both, keeping your entire team engaged.
Need Customized Training: We’ve got you covered
Don’t hesitate to discuss how we can prepare and deliver customized training that is tailored to your needs and brings maximum value to you.
We can mix and match various subjects in highly customized training curriculums, including programming, containers, state stores, message brokers, DevOps/DevSecOps, networking, and Kubernetes.
Why Choose Us
Kubernetes Training and Certification Services
Kubernetes Training
Comprehensive Kubernetes training services, leveraging over 14 years of training experience and 3200+ training hours to empower your team with the skills needed to excel in Kubernetes environments.
Our training programs are designed to be practical, engaging, and tailored to your organization's needs, having served clients in 6+ countries and trained over 3000 students.
Can’t afford to dedicate a full day to training?
Need a training in a specific language?
No environment is too small or too big
No matter the size of your environment:
- А Developer working on a local workstation and looking to understand better containers and Kubernetes and use them more productively.
- An SRE engineer tasked with designing, building, and maintaining the development, staging, and production environments on-prem, hybrid, in the cloud, or at the edge.
- A Security Specialist tasked with securing all the environments in their large-scale cloud infrastructure.
We offer the right training for the technologies or platforms you use, wherever you use them.
Need a training in a specific language?
Whether you are just starting your Cloud Native journey for a new project or have years of experience in the industry, we have the training right for your needs.
Using our smart, beginner-friendly training approach, you can get up to speed with the concepts you are interested in with minimum time investment.
No more Death By PowerPoint
Our presentations are designed to be light, engaging, and interactive, using animated content. To enhance learning, we combine these presentations with live demonstrations, hands-on exercises, and opportunities for student participation. We explain concepts clearly and interactively, demonstrating their real-world applications in various environments like user interfaces, terminal shells, Jupyter Notebooks, and integrated development environments (IDEs).
You get a copy of all training materials
We do care about the environment and sustainable resource usage!
Before each class, you’ll receive a copy of all training materials in multiple electronic formats, which will be convenient for use during the training and as a handy reference later on.
Upon request, we could also provide a printed version of the materials.
We embrace Open Source, and we are vendor-neutral
While we offer dedicated courses and services for specific Cloud Prodivers and Commercial Offerings, our approach is to embrace Open-Source and vendor-neutral approaches in all our training services.
We are not here to sell you products! We help you find the solution that best fits your specific needs and help you utilize it most efficiently.
Your feedback is important to us
We continuously improve our service based on your feedback.
Our Training Method
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Kubernetes Certifications
More and more organizations need engineers with Kubernetes skills to run their modern application platforms. Passing the Kubernetes certification proves you have the skill and knowledge to solve practical, real-world challenges. It validates your expertise, can help you advance in your career, gives you a competitive advantage, and helps you stay current in the latest kubernetes features and best practices.
Mastering Kubernetes is not easy, but with our hands-on, practice-oriented program, you will quickly navigate the extensive curriculum, gain the confidence and experience needed to jumpstart your career as a Kubernetes administrator and prove your skills by successfully passing the certification exams.
Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA)
The Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA) exam demonstrates foundational knowledge and skills in Kubernetes and the wider cloud native ecosystem.
The KCNA is a pre-professional certification designed for candidates interested in advancing to the professional level through a demonstrated understanding of kubernetes foundational knowledge and skills.
A KCNA certification will confirm conceptual knowledge of the entire cloud native ecosystem, mainly focusing on Kubernetes.
Experience level: Beginner
Prerequisite: No
Kubernetes and Cloud Native Security Associate (KCSA)
The Kubernetes and Cloud Native Security Associate (KCSA) exam demonstrates the candidate's understanding of the baseline security configuration of Kubernetes clusters to meet compliance objectives, including the ability to harden security controls, test and monitor security, and assess security threats and vulnerabilities.
The KCSA is a pre-professional certification designed for candidates interested in advancing to the professional level through a demonstrated understanding of foundational knowledge and skills of security technologies in the cloud native ecosystem.
A certified KCSA will confirm an understanding of the baseline security configuration of Kubernetes clusters to meet compliance objectives.
Experience level: Beginner
Prerequisite: No
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
The Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam is a rigorous, performance-based certification that validates the candidate’s ability to effectively manage and operate Kubernetes clusters.
The CKA certification demonstrates the candidate’s expertise in Kubernetes administration and can significantly boost their career prospects in the cloud-native ecosystem. It's a valuable credential for DevOps engineers, cloud architects, and anyone professionally working with Kubernetes.
Experience level: Intermediate
Prerequisite: No
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
The Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) exam is a practical assessment designed to validate your ability to design, build, configure, and expose cloud-native applications for Kubernetes.
CKAD is a hands-on, command-line-based exam testing candidate's skills in:
- Defining application resources
- Using core primitives to build, monitor, and troubleshoot scalable applications
- Working with container images
- Applying cloud-native application concepts and architectures
Experience level: Intermediate
Prerequisite: No
Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
The Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) program assures that the candidate has the skills, knowledge, and competence on a broad range of best practices for securing container-based applications and Kubernetes platforms during build, deployment, and runtime.
CKS is a performance-based certification exam that tests candidates' knowledge of Kubernetes and cloud security in a simulated, real-world environment. To qualify for the CKS exam, a candidate must first hold a Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification, ensuring a foundational understanding of Kubernetes before diving into the complexities of security.
Experience level: Intermediate
Prerequisite: CKA certification
Hands-on Workshops
We’ve organized many workshops, and we know that to be efficient and maximize the value for the participants, they should have clear learning objectives, build on top of the current participant knowledge level, and, of course, the content should be exciting and engaging.
Our training workshops offer interactive learning experiences optimized to enhance participants' knowledge, skills, or abilities in a specific area or technology.
Visit our training catalog for a full list of Kubernetes and
Cloud Native trainings that we offer!