CNCF is excited to share that since launching the Kubestronauts program less than a year ago, over 1000 Kubestronauts have joined the program. A special welcome to our 1,000th Kubestronaut, Remy Mollandin! Each of these 1000+ Kubestronauts have active certifications in all of CNCF’s Kubernetes certifications: KCNA, KCSA, CKA, CKAD, CKS.

Unique Value of the Kubestronaut Program 

CNCF’s Kubestronaut program is designed to drive the growth of Kubernetes and open source cloud native technologies by providing training, learning resources, networking opportunities, and professional development opportunities to help participants grow their cloud-native careers. There is no other comparable program in the world like this.

Becoming a Kubestronaut not only adds you to an elite group, but you also get:

“We’re very pleased to celebrate this major milestone—reaching 1,000 Kubestronauts in less than a year since the program’s inception! This achievement highlights the tremendous enthusiasm within the community to learn and grow with Kubernetes. We appreciate all our Kubestronauts and look forward to learning from them to ensure we produce better cloud native education materials for the world.” –Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, CNCF

What Kubestronauts say about the program:

In automated environments, and especially with regards to security, it is extremely important to be aware of what’s currently being offered, what gets deprecated, and what best practices to follow. Continuous learning with this certification program will “push” you to get better. – Maria Salcedo

The Kubernetes certifications are hands-on exams that will help you acquire not only knowledge of Kubernetes, but also the basic skills to build and troubleshoot application environments on Kubernetes by actually doing the work. 

Daiki Takasao

Learn more about how to become a Kubestronaut  and read about the highlighted Kubestronauts in Orbit.

Discover more about our Kubestronauts

Kubestronauts come from around the world with participants in 86 countries and every continent except Antarctica. Fourteen Kubestronauts are the only ones in their entire country! Although India and United States have the most Kubestronauts per country, some cities have more Kubestronauts than others.  Our top 5 cities for Kubestronauts are: 

  1. Singapore, Singapore
  2. Seoul, South Korea
  3. London, United Kingdom
  4. Oslo, Norway
  5. Tokyo, Japan

 Our top five countries by number of Kubestronauts are:

  1. India
  2. United States
  3. Germany
  4. The Netherlands
  5. France

We’d like to thank all the Kubestronauts for being committed members of the CNCF Open Source community.  Learn more about becoming a Kubestronaut and explore stories in our Kubestronauts in Orbit series.