Calico Certification
Resources to advance your Kubernetes Networking, Security and Observability knowledge
Why Calico Certifications?
Kubernetes is the de-facto standard for deploying and managing cloud-native applications at scale, both on-premises and in the cloud. Calico is the most popular open-source networking and security solution for Kubernetes. Calico Cloud and Calico Enterprise, provide advanced capabilities to secure, observe and troubleshoot cloud-native applications.
Benefits of Calico Certifications

Credibility
Increase your credibility as a cloud-native application expert

Confidence
Gain the confidence you need to run mission-critical cloud-native workloads in production

Career Advancement
Advance your skills for next-generation cloud-native applications
Who Should Take the Certifications?

Network Engineers
Understand how software-defined Kubernetes networking works, how to configure and manage a cloud-native application network

Security Engineers
Learn, how to holistically secure your cloud-native application following today’s best practices

DevOps and SREs
Learn how to include observability in your CI/CD pipeline to enable actionable monitoring, real-time observability, and troubleshooting

Platform Architects
Learn, how to network, secure, observe and troubleshoot highly distributed, dynamic and ephemeral applications
Certifications:
Certified Calico Operator: Level 1
This course will cover how Kubernetes networking works, how to configure and manage a Calico network, and how to secure your Kubernetes cluster.

Certified Calico Operator: AWS Expert
This course will contrast several options for deploying Kubernetes in AWS and examine how the default AWS networking works. It will also describe how to best configure and manage Calico in AWS, and how to use it to secure your AWS Kubernetes clusters.
Certified Calico Operator: eBPF
This course will provide an introduction to eBPF and then describe Calico’s eBPF pluggable data plane, reviewing the benefits and recommended scenarios for use, and demonstrating the data plane in live labs across multiple deployment scenarios.

NewCertified Calico Operator: Azure Expert
This course will cover an introduction to Azure cloud, learnings about managed, self-managed and hybrid cluster deployment using Calico in Azure, and hands-on labs to help learners explore most of the features in Calico – Azure integration.
Certified Calico Operator: Level 1
This course will cover how Kubernetes networking works, how to configure and manage a Calico network, and how to secure your Kubernetes cluster.

Certified Calico Operator: AWS Expert
This course will contrast several options for deploying Kubernetes in AWS and examine how the default AWS networking works. It will also describe how to best configure and manage Calico in AWS, and how to use it to secure your AWS Kubernetes clusters.
Certified Calico Operator: eBPF
This course will provide an introduction to eBPF and then describe Calico’s eBPF pluggable data plane, reviewing the benefits and recommended scenarios for use, and demonstrating the data plane in live labs across multiple deployment scenarios.

NewCertified Calico Operator: Azure Expert
This course will cover an introduction to Azure cloud, learnings about managed, self-managed and hybrid cluster deployment using Calico in Azure, and hands-on labs to help learners explore most of the features in Calico – Azure integration.
Certified Calico Operator: Level 1
This course will cover how Kubernetes networking works, how to configure and manage a Calico network, and how to secure your Kubernetes cluster.

Certified Calico Operator: AWS Expert
This course will contrast several options for deploying Kubernetes in AWS and examine how the default AWS networking works. It will also describe how to best configure and manage Calico in AWS, and how to use it to secure your AWS Kubernetes clusters.
Certified Calico Operator: eBPF
This course will provide an introduction to eBPF and then describe Calico’s eBPF pluggable data plane, reviewing the benefits and recommended scenarios for use, and demonstrating the data plane in live labs across multiple deployment scenarios.

NewCertified Calico Operator: Azure Expert
This course will cover an introduction to Azure cloud, learnings about managed, self-managed and hybrid cluster deployment using Calico in Azure, and hands-on labs to help learners explore most of the features in Calico – Azure integration.
Not quite ready to get certified?
Learn more about Kubernetes Networking in this newly released eBook written by Alex Pollitt, CTO and Co-Founder of Tigera and Co-Creator of Project Calico. The eBook shares everything you need to confidently approach Kubernetes networking and security, starting with basic networking concepts, all the way through to advanced Kubernetes networking with eBPF.