Becoming KCNA Certified
Build a strong foundation in cloud native and Kubernetes and pass the KCNA exam with ease
Dmitry Galkin
BIRMINGHAM—MUMBAI
Becoming KCNA Certified
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Contributors
About the author
Dmitry Galkin is a cloud expert and a founder of Cloudification. For 12+ years, he has been working with cloud technologies, cloud-native solutions, DevOps, infrastructure, and service automation domains in a variety of roles. He has consulted international enterprises and supported small start-ups, mentored students, and developed IT certification programs for non-profit organizations as a subject matter expert.
Dmitry is an open source contributor, and he holds more than 10 professional certifications, including all four Kubernetes certifications from CNCF (namely, KCNA, CKA, CKAD, and CKS). He is based in Berlin and holds a master of science degree from the University of Bremen, Germany.
About the reviewers
Werner Dijkerman is a freelance cloud, Kubernetes (certified), and DevOps engineer. He’s currently focused on, and working with, cloud-native solutions and tools, including AWS, Ansible, Kubernetes, and Terraform. He is also focused on infrastructure as code and monitoring the correct thing, with tools such as Zabbix, Prometheus, and the ELK stack, and has a passion for automating everything and avoiding doing anything that resembles manual work. He is an active reader of comics and non-fictional and IT-related books, and he is a technical reviewer for various books about DevOps, CI/CD, and Kubernetes.
Johann Gyger is a passionate software engineer living in Switzerland. He has over 20 years of industry experience working as a developer, architect, trainer, and consultant in various domains and for different customers and employers. Besides being a Cloud Native Ambassador, Johann is enthusiastic about the cloud-native movement and organizes the Swiss Cloud Native Day and the Cloud Native Bern Meetup. He strongly believes in open source software and vendor-neutral standards.