GitOps Certification

The CGOA certification was announced in 2023 can now be purchased as of February 21, 2024, but the ability to schedule a CGOA exam will not be available until the end of March 2024.

Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA)

Experience Level: Beginner

• Online
• Multiple-choice Exam
• Duration of Exam 90 Minutes
• Certification Valid for 3 Years
• Includes 12 Month Exam Eligibility
• One Retake
• PDF Certificate and Digital Badge

Cost: $ 250 (USD)

Domains & Competencies

GitOps Terminology 20%

• Continuous
• Declarative Description
• Desired State
• State Drift
• State Reconciliation
• GitOps Managed Software System
• State Store
• Feedback Loop
• Rollback

GitOps Principles 30%

• Declarative
• Versioned and Immutable
• Pulled Automatically
• Continuously Reconciled

Related Practices 16%

• Configuration as Code (CaC)
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• DevOps and DevSecOps
• CI and CD

GitOps Patterns 20%

• Deployment and Release Patterns
• Progressive Delivery Patterns
• Pull vs. Event-driven
• Architecture Patterns (in-cluster and external reconciler, state store management, etc.)

Tooling 14%

• Manifest Format and Packaging
• State Store Systems (Git and alternatives)
• Reconciliation Engines (ArgoCD, Flux, and alternatives)
• Interoperability with Notifications, Observability, and Continuous Integration Tools

You still can do the course for free LFS169 Introduction to GitOps - free