Linux Foundation Training & Certification and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) have partnered with CoRise to launch a learning path aimed at increasing the number of qualified and certified DevOps professionals worldwide. The curriculum, which is set to prepare professionals for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam, consists of three instructor-led courses, with the first one free of charge.
The courses are DevOps Crash Course, Docker and Container Fundamentals, and Kubernetes: Managing Containers at Scale. The goal of the partnership is to prepare 50,000 professionals for the CKA exam over the next two years.
The demand for DevOps professionals proficient in Kubernetes has increased significantly due to the explosive growth of digital transformation and cloud-native projects. DevOps emphasizes collaboration and communication between development and operations teams, enabling them to deliver software quickly and reliably. Kubernetes provides a platform for automating many of the tasks that are critical to DevOps, such as continuous deployment, scaling, and monitoring.
According to Chris Aniszczyk, the CTO of the CNCF, increasing the number of technical professionals certified in Kubernetes is essential for organizations to improve efficiency, reduce downtime, deliver higher quality software, and provide a better end-user experience. The Linux Foundation’s CKA certification and CoRise’s AI-powered edtech platform would help tens of thousands of professionals acquire the DevOps and Kubernetes skills they need to propel their careers forward.
Each course would blend best-in-class online learning technologies, allowing each cohort to work on projects led by industry experts, attend live and recorded weekly instructor-led sessions, interact with instructors, and obtain personalized AI-driven support. CoRise instructors, including Sourabh Bajaj, Co-founder and CTO, CoRise; Jamie Duncan, GCP & App Transformation Customer Engineer, Google; and Gari Singh, Product Manager, Google Cloud, Google, will bring extensive real-world experience to their classes.
Free Course: DevOps Crash Course
Enrollment is now open for the first course in the series, DevOps Crash Course, which is free. The cohort will begin on June 12th and run for two weeks. Enrollment will open shortly for the follow-on courses, which will cost $400 individually or $1,000 as part of a CoRise annual subscription that provides access to more than 40 courses.
CoRise recommends that prospective students have some experience with command lines and containers. While some programming experience is recommended, it is not required. Students looking to gain experience prior to enrolling should review the Linux Foundation’s free training catalog.
The Linux Foundation was founded in 2000 and is supported by more than 1,000 members. It is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. Linux Foundation’s projects are critical to the world’s IT infrastructure, including Linux, Kubernetes, and Node.js, among others. The Linux Foundation’s methodology focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration.
The CNCF hosts critical components of the global technology infrastructure, including Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy. Cloud-native computing empowers organizations to build and run scalable applications with an open-source software stack in public, private, and hybrid clouds. The CNCF brings together the industry’s top developers, end-users, and vendors and runs the largest open-source developer conferences globally. Supported by more than 800 members, including the world’s largest cloud computing and software companies, as well as over 200 innovative startups, the CNCF is part of the nonprofit Linux Foundation.
CoRise claims that its completion rate is 78%, and 95% of trainees report having acquired abilities that will be useful in their current positions. CoRise was established by early workers of Coursera Julia Stiglitz, Sourabh Bajaj, and Jacob Samuelson and is supported by Greylock Partners, GSV Ventures, and Cowboy Ventures.
