Cloud Native Free Training and Certifications

José Adan Ortiz
2 min readJun 30, 2021

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CNCF Landscape

TLDR; I converted this post into a Github Repository to make it collaborative.

We are already a little past the middle of 2021, which has been as convulsive and unpredictable as 2020, which surprised us with so many adaptations and changes that we had to take on.

Among these adaptations, the world of technology was no stranger, the great demand for digital services led to the “digital transformation” processes of organizations accelerating incrementally in a very short time, requiring the almost immediate availability of new platforms. , development of new capacities and therefore the demand for professionals with skills to take on these challenges.

2020 was a great year in which many organizations in the Cloud Native technological field took the opportunity to make their learning platforms available for free with the intention that more professionals would become experts in their products and solutions, and thus be able to help many professionals who they were somehow affected by the pandemic.

This 2021 has not been different, and many organizations continue to make available many trainings in the Cloud Native field, even with certifications, which can help all professionals develop their professional careers to find new job challenges related to Application Development, DevOps, Cloud Computing, and SRE.

Below, I have prepared a list of free trainings from some organizations that are supporting the projects of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation:

Training with Certifications

Tetrate Academy — Envoy Fundamentals 🆕
Course + Certification

Codefresh —GitOps Fundamentals 🆕
Course + Certification

Kasten — Kubernetes Certificates (Apprentice, Defender , Helmsman) 🆕
Courses + Certifications

solo.io — Istio Foundation Certificate
Workshop + Certification

solo.io — Istio Essentials Certificate
Workshop + Certification

Certified Calico Operator: Level 1 (Kubernetes Networking and Security)
Training + Certification

Certified Calico Operator: AWS Expert
Training + Certification

Chef Principles Certification
Training | Certification

Gremlim Chaos Engineering Practitioner Certificate Program
Training | Certification

Gitlab 101 Certification
Training + Certification

MongoDB Basics
Training + Certification

New Relic Full Stack Observability Certificate
Certification

Training

Introduction to GitOps
Training

Elastic Observability Fundamentals
Training

Elastic Kibana Fundamentals
Training

Alibaba Cloud Native Technology Foundation
Training

Introduction to Prometheus
Training

Sysdig Introduction to Prometheus and PromQL
Training

Introduction to Service Mesh with Linkerd
Training

Introduction to Kubernetes on the Edge with k3s
Training

Introduction to Cloud Foundry and Cloud-Native Software Architecture
Training

Certified Jenkins Engineer 2021
Training

Cassandra Database

VMWare Kube Academy

Aqua Cloud Native Academy

Let’s go for more folks, and if you find another interesting learning resource that you want to share just let me know in the comments.

Happy Continuous Learning 😃

Update: I’ve added 2 new course+certificates relatively recent and still available in 2022

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José Adan Ortiz

🇻🇪 | Customer Adoption Engineer @ Roche Spain | Cloud Native Barcelona Organizer