The Certified Cloud Native Platform Engineering (CNPE) course is expertly designed to help you confidently prepare for and clear the CNPE certification exam. Tailored for platform engineers, DevOps professionals, cloud architects, and senior infrastructure practitioners, this course builds upon foundational platform engineering knowledge and focuses on designing, operating, securing, and scaling production-grade cloud-native platforms.

Syllabus

Design scalable platform architectures for enterprise workloads. Implement resource governance using requests, limits, quotas, and policies. Build multi-tenant Kubernetes environments with appropriate isolation models. Manage persistent storage using volumes, claims, and storage classes. Understand platform networking and traffic flow patterns. Optimize infrastructure utilization and reduce platform costs using tools such as OpenCost. Implement GitOps workflows using declarative infrastructure and reconciliation principles. Design repository structures that support multi-environment deployments. Deploy and manage applications using ArgoCD. Build and understand Kubernetes-native CI/CD pipelines with Tekton. Implement canary and blue-green deployment strategies using Argo Rollouts. Integrate service meshes into progressive delivery workflows. Troubleshoot delivery failures and configuration drift effectively. Design platform APIs that serve as clear contracts between platform and application teams. Extend Kubernetes using Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs). Implement Kubernetes operators and understand reconciliation patterns. Build automated workflows using Argo Workflows. Create reusable infrastructure abstractions using Crossplane compositions and functions. Evaluate when to use operators, workflows, or pipelines for platform automation. Deliver self-service infrastructure capabilities that improve developer experience. Build observability strategies using metrics, logs, traces, and alerts. Implement monitoring solutions with Prometheus and Grafana. Configure alerting systems and notification routing using Alertmanager. Create dashboards that provide actionable operational insights. Implement distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry and Jaeger. Design scalable logging architectures. Diagnose platform issues and execute structured incident response processes. Apply platform security best practices and threat mitigation strategies. Implement role-based access control (RBAC) using least-privilege principles. Enforce governance policies using admission controllers and policy engines. Implement policy-as-code using OPA Gatekeeper and Kyverno. Apply Kubernetes Pod Security Standards to strengthen workload security. Secure service-to-service communication using Istio and mutual TLS (mTLS). Integrate security controls into software delivery pipelines, including image scanning and supply chain protection. Platform engineers seeking advanced cloud-native platform engineering expertise. DevOps engineers looking to deepen their knowledge of GitOps, automation, and platform operations. Cloud architects responsible for designing scalable and secure cloud-native platforms. Kubernetes administrators and infrastructure engineers expanding into platform engineering roles. Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) working with cloud-native infrastructure and platform operations. Professionals preparing for the Certified Cloud Native Platform Engineering (CNPE) certification exam.