The GitOps Certified Associate (CGOA) certification is for DevOps engineers and team members, platform and software engineers, CI/CD practitioners and other team members who would build IDPs with GitOps built into them.
The CGOA exam allows candidates to demonstrate their understanding of GitOps principles, terminology, and best practices in setting up a GitOps managed software system in addition to related practices such as Configuration as Code, Infrastructure as Code, DevOps & DevSecOps, and CI & CD and how to map them to GitOps.
Cost $250 | Online Exam
About the program
The GitOps Certified Associate (CGOA) certification tests foundational knowledge and skills in implementing and managing GitOps practices within cloud-native environments and validates understanding of GitOps principles, tools, workflows, and benefits in achieving streamlined, reliable, and automated deployments using version control systems.
The CGOA Certification demonstrates:
- Understanding of the core principles of GitOps:
- Declarative: Describing the desired state of systems using code.
- Versioned and immutable: Storing system state in Git for traceability and rollback
- Pulled automatically: Automated reconciliation between desired and actual states
- Continuously reconciled: Ensuring systems self-heal to match the desired state
- Proficiency with GitOps tools such as Argo CD, Flux, and Jenkins X.
- Knowledge of how GitOps integrates with Kubernetes for continuous delivery and infrastructure management. As well as how to deploy and manage Kubernetes applications using GitOps workflows.
- Ability to create, manage, and troubleshoot GitOps workflows for application and infrastructure delivery.
- Awareness of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines in a GitOps context.
- Understanding of how to use GitOps for security and governance:
- Familiarity with GitOps observability and monitoring tools and techniques
Earning the CGOA certification demonstrates a professional’s ability to use GitOps practices to improve automation, reliability, and efficiency in cloud-native and Kubernetes environments. This establishes credibility in adopting GitOps for application delivery and infrastructure management and readiness to implement modern, scalable, and automated deployment workflows. Earning this certification also provides a foundation for more advanced GitOps certifications or DevOps-related credentials.
CNCF has open sourced the curriculum around which the CGOA exam has been created to guide candidates’ exam preparation.CNCF offers wholesale pricing on our exams to training companies purchasing in bulk. For more information, please contact trainingpartners@cncf.io.
Exam resources
This exam is an online, proctored, multiple-choice exam.
| Domain | Weight |
|---|---|
| GitOps Terminology | 20% |
| GitOps Principles | 30% |
| Related Practices | 16% |
| GitOps Patterns | 20% |
| Tooling | 14% |
The cost is $250 and includes one free retake. For questions on the exam, please reach out.