Certifications
A Golden Kubestronaut: every CNCF certification, plus the Linux Foundation LFCS and more.
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Distinctions

The Golden Kubestronaut badge recognizes an exceptional level of achievement within the Cloud Native ecosystem.

Kubestronauts are people who showed exemplary Kubernetes knowledge by passing all five of CNCF’s Kubernetes-related certifications: Certified Kubernetes Administrator…
CNCF

Earners of this designation demonstrated a solid understanding of the Argo Project ecosystem, terminology, and best practices for each tool and how it relates to common…

Earners of this designation demonstrated the skills and knowledge required to build developer portals with Backstage.

Earners of this designation demonstrated an understanding of the major features, benefits and use cases offered by Cilium.

Earners of this designation demonstrated comprehension of GitOps patterns including when and why to use them.

Earners of this designation demonstrated the skills, knowledge and competencies to perform the responsibilities of a Kubernetes Administrator.

Earners of this designation demonstrated the skills, knowledge and competencies to perform the responsibilities of a Kubernetes Application Developer.

Earners of this designation are accomplished Kubernetes practitioners (as evidenced by holding the CKA credential).

Earners of this designation demonstrated the skills, knowledge and competencies to perform the responsibilities of a Cloud Native Platform Engineering Associate.

Earners of this designation demonstrated a solid understanding of Istio principles, terminology, and best practices in order to set up Istio.

Earners of this designation demonstrated advanced proficiency in Kubernetes security, specifically in utilizing Kyverno for defining and managing security policies.

Earners of this designation demonstrated a basic knowledge of Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies, including how to deploy an application using basic kubectl…

Earners of this badge have demonstrated an understanding of the baseline security configuration of Kubernetes clusters to meet compliance objectives, including the ability…

Earners of this designation understand the basic concepts of observability, and how OpenTelemetry enables these concepts.

Earners of this designation demonstrated an understanding of best practices for monitoring cloud native applications and infrastructure using Prometheus, including how to…
HashiCorp

Earners of the HashiCorp Certified: Consul Associate certification know the basic concepts and skills to build, secure, and maintain open source HashiCorp Consul.

Earners of the HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate certification know the basic concepts, skills, and use cases associated with open source HashiCorp Terraform.

Earners of the HashiCorp Certified: Vault Associate certification know the basic concepts, skills, and use cases associated with open source HashiCorp Vault.
Red Hat & Linux

Earners of this designation demonstrated the skills required to do basic to intermediate system administration and are knowledgeable in the operational support of Linux…

Red Hat Certified Engineer in Enterprise Linux (RHCE-Enterprise Linux) is a Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) who is ready to automate Red Hat® Enterprise…

A Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ceph Storage Administration has the knowledge, skills, and ability to create, configure, and manage Red Hat Ceph Storage clusters.

An IT professional who is a Red Hat® Certified Specialist in Server Security and Hardening has demonstrated the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to understand and…

An IT professional who has earned the Red Hat® Certified System Administrator (RHCSA®) is able to perform the core system administration skills required in Red Hat…
Cloud: AWS & Microsoft

Earners of this certification have an in-depth understanding of AWS security services and the shared responsibility model (between AWS and the customer).

Earning Azure Developer Associate certification validates the skills and knowledge to design, build, test, and maintain cloud applications and services on Microsoft Azure.

Earning Azure Security Engineer Associate certification validates the skills and knowledge to implement security controls and threat protection, manage identity and…

Earning the DevOps Engineer Expert certification demonstrates the ability to combine people, process, and technologies to continuously deliver valuable products and…

Earning Identity and Access Administrator Associate certification validates the skills and knowledge to design, implement, and operate an organization’s identity and…

Earning Security Operations Analyst Associate certification validates the skills and knowledge needed to reduce organizational risk by rapidly remediating active attacks…
Other

Earners of the Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK) badge have demonstrated competency in key cloud security issues.