The context

I’ve never been a huge fan of IT Certifications. I tend to believe that one’s ability to search for information associated with a good practical expertise is much more valuable than plain memorization. On the other hand, some certifications force us to go the extra mile and to study an unusual topic. That singularity captivates me. Following that path, these last months I focused on two different Kubernetes certifications: CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) and CKAD (Certified Kubernetes Application Developer). Even though I wouldn’t call myself a DevOps/SR engineer, they seemed to be the natural path for an application developer working with containers and cloud computing. By the way, I strongly recommend taking these two, specially the CKAD because “Earners of this designation demonstrated the skills, knowledge and competencies to perform the responsibilities of a Kubernetes Application Developer. Earners are able to define application resources and use core primitives to build, monitor, and troubleshoot scalable applications and tools in Kubernetes”.