Last Updated on August 2, 2021
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Group | Cert | Course | Cost | Features | Description |
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Kubernetes | CKA | CKA Exam | $300 | Exam and training material | Online exam. 3 hours to complete 24 scenarios on real clusters. |
Kubernetes | CKA | Linux Academy | $450 for 12 months or $49 per month | Videos Quizzes Flashcards Exercises | This course, plus the Kubernetes documentation and practice should be enough to pass. |
Kubernetes | CKA | Linux Foundation | $299 for 12 months | Videos Exercises | Course designed specifically for the CKA exam |
Kubernetes | CKA | LearnK8s Academy | $999 for 12 months | Interactive | With a focus on simplicity and readability, this course will have you deploying and scaling applications in no time! |
Kubernetes | CKA | KataCoda | Free | Exercises | Not enough on its own but helpful |
Kubernetes | CKA | Udacity | Free | Videos Quizzes | By the legend Kelsey Hightower. Worth doing this as it's free but won't cover everything needed. |
Kubernetes | CKA | edX | Free | Videos Quizzes | A good free introduction to Kubernetes but not enough on its own to pass the exam |
Kubernetes | CKA | edX | Free | Exercises | Manually setup a cluster on GCE |
Kubernetes | CKA | Kubernetes Bootcamp on GitHub | Free | Interactive | An hour long interactive tutorial powered by Katacoda that creates a cluster, deploys an app and scales it. |
Kubernetes | CKA | CKA study guide on GitHub | Free | Exercises | A cool Github repo with some labs and revision notes |
Kubernetes | CKA | Docker and Kubernetes: The Complete Guide on Udemy | $80 | Text Videos | Build, test, and deploy Docker applications with Kubernetes while learning production-style development workflows |
Kubernetes | CKA | $80 | Text Videos Exercises | Prepare for the Certified Kubernetes Administrators Certification with live practice tests right in your browser - CKA | |
Kubernetes | CKA | CERTIFIED KUBERNETES ADMINISTRATOR by Dooey | $499 | Text Videos Exercises | This Kubernetes Certification Course helps you learn KubeAPI Server and Kubelets. |
Kubernetes | CKA | Kubernetes Certification Training Course by Edureka | $269 | Text Videos Exercises | This Kubernetes certification course will give you an in-depth knowledge of various aspects of the Exam such as Kubernetes Core Concepts, Pod Scheduling, Kubernetes Networking, Logging, Monitoring, Cluster Security, and Troubleshooting. |
Kubernetes | CKA | Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) by ITU Online | $99 | Text Videos | This course explains several important aspects of taking the official Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam. |
Kubernetes | CKA | Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) by Pleuralsight | Free trial | Text Videos | By the end of this path, you’ll have gained the practical knowledge required to hit the ground running as a Kubernetes administration wizard |
Kubernetes | CKA | Kube.Academy by VMWare | Free | Videos | Many free course videos about a lot of Kubernetes topics |
Kubernetes | CKA | CKA Course on GitHub | Free | Text Exercises | An amazing free community created course covering the entire CKA syllabus |
Kubernetes | None | Magic Sandbox | Free | Interactive | Free introduction course that covers a lot of the Kubernetes fundamentals in a fun way |
Kubernetes | None | Play with K8s | Free | Interactive | Play around on a free Kubernetes cluster courtesy of Docker |
Kubernetes | None | TGI Kubernetes on Youtube | Free | Videos | A Youtube series of 56 x 1 hour plus long videos by Joe Beda from Heptio, the creator of Kubernetes. |
Kubernetes | None | Kubernetes Introduction | Free | PPT | An absolutely beautiful presentation with over 180 slides including some of the prettiest graphics I've seen. Definitely worth flicking through. Suitable for all skill levels. |
Kubernetes | None | Heptio Tutorials | Free | Text | A handful of short tutorials to complete on your own cluster. |
Kubernetes | None | Kubernetes by example | Free | Text | A short set of tutorials going over all of the Kubernetes primitives. |
Kubernetes | None | What happens when k8s on GitHub | Free | Text | A deep dive into what happens when you type kubectl run. |
Kubernetes | None | Kubernetes Installation and Configuration Fundamentals on Pleuralsight | Free trial | Text | . First, you'll learn about its architecture, and then how to install your first cluster. With that cluster up and running you'll explore how to work with it and deploy applications in Kubernetes! |
Cloud | AWS Solutions Architect Associate | AWS Solutions Architect Exam | $150 | Exam | Onsite exam. 130 minutes to complete multiple choice questions. |
Cloud | AWS Solutions Architect Associate | acloud.guru | $249 for 12 months or $29 per month | Videos Quizzes Trial-Exam Forum | This should be enough on its own to pass the exam |
Cloud | AWS Solutions Architect Associate | Linux Academy | $450 for 12 months or $49 per month | Videos Quizzes Flashcards Exercises | This should be enough on its own to pass the exam |
Cloud | AWS Solutions Architect Associate | Qwiklabs | $495 per year or $55 per month | Exercises | Lab exercises for AWS and GCP on real clusters. It's worth doing a month of this if you don't have much hands on experience. |
Cloud | None | Coursera GKE for beginners | Free | Videos | 6 hours of videos from Google about containers and Kubernetes on Google Cloud |
Cloud | None | Coursera Architecting with GKE | Free | Videos Exercises | One of 4 specialization courses by Google that goes into a lot of depth about running Kubernetes on GCP |
Network | CCNA | CCNA Exam | $325 | Exam | Onsite exam. 90 minutes to complete 50 - 60 questions with 3 - 4 simulation questions. |
Network | CCNA | udemy | $10 | Videos Exercises | This may be enough to pass, I'm not sure. I attended onsite training to pass the CCNA. |
Linux | RHCSA | RHCSA Exam | $400 | Exam. | Onsite exam. 150 minutes to complete 10 to 15 hands on assignments. |
Linux | RHCSA | Linux Academy | $450 for 12 months or $49 per month | Videos Quizzes Flashcards Exercises | This should be enough on its own to pass the exam |
Containers | Docker Certified Associate | Docker | $195 | Exam. | Online exam. 90 minutes to complete 55 multiple choice questions. |
Containers | None | udemy: Docker and Kubernetes guide | $10 | Videos | 4.5 hours of high quality videos. A great way to start if you're learning containers from scratch. |
Config Management | Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation | Redhat | $400 | Exam. | Onsite exam. 4 hours of hands on lab scenarios. |
Software Dev | None | Code Academy Python 2 | Free | Interactive | This is the course that got me into Python. It's still free! Do this course and then moving to Python 3 is a small change. |
Software Dev | None | udemy: Automate boring stuff with Python | $10 | Videos | Learn Python 3.x from scratch with a fun set of videos (almost 10 hours in total) |
Security | None | Hack the box | Free | Interactive | Pentesting labs |
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