Certified Backstage Associate (CBA)

Backstage is an open platform that helps organizations manage and streamline their software development infrastructure. It centralizes tools, services, and documentation, making it easier for developers to navigate complex systems and improve productivity.

Backstage enables platform teams to build a cohesive internal ecosystem, improving productivity, standardization, and governance across projects, making it a cornerstone for organizations seeking to improve productivity, standardization, and governance across projects.

Knowledge of Backstage is becoming essential to platform development. A certification will validate your expertise in platform engineering, service catalog management, and DevOps integration, making you more competitive for roles like platform engineer, DevOps specialist, or site reliability engineer (SRE). 

The CBA is designed for IT engineers, developers, platform engineers and other IT professionals. Earning the certification proves you have the mindset and skills to work in and build Backstage tools that improve performance and drive innovation benefiting your career, your team and your organization.

CNCF has open sourced the curriculum around which the KCSA exam has been created to guide candidates’ exam preparation and for the benefit of companies offering training.CNCF offers wholesale pricing on our exams to training companies purchasing in bulk. For more information, please contact trainingpartners@cncf.io.