June 2024
Beginner
266 pages
7h 34m
English
book
Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA) Study Guide
by Jorge Valenzuela Jiménez, Adrián González Sánchez
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Preface
KCNA. It’s an interesting choice for a new technology certification acronym. When you search for this term online, many of the results refer to a national news agency in Asia. But we won’t be talking about that here. The Linux Foundation released the Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate exam in 2021, and even if the acronym can initially be a bit confusing, the name is not at all random. The KCNA exam and certification name is a direct reference to Kubernetes technology and its role as a key cloud native ecosystem enabler.
It makes sense. Containerization is quickly becoming the new normal for big and small technology companies and their developers around the world, and technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes are “nonofficial” standards for most of the adopters out there. This powerful movement has been brewing since the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) was created in 2015, and companies like Google have leveraged cloud native technologies since the early 2000s. Given that this is a complex area of highly technical knowledge requiring a lot of practice, effort, and upskilling, the community needs new learning and training resources, documentation, and simple ways for professionals to learn and adopt cloud native tools. This exam is one of the avenues to make this happen.
But this is not really a hurdle. I (Adrián) still remember the first time I heard about cloud native. It was during a job interview, and I naively thought my interviewer meant something like ...
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