Today,
Linux Foundation Training & Certification and the Cloud Native Computing
Foundation are announcing the availability of our newest training course, LFS260 -
Kubernetes Security Essentials. The course provides skills and knowledge on a broad range of
best practices for securing container-based applications and Kubernetes
platforms during build, deployment and runtime. It is also a great way to
prepare to take the recently launched Certified
Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) certification exam.
As
production environments become more decoupled and agile, keeping the entire
environment secure has become more complex. This challenge will only become
more acute as cloud adoption accelerates. Additionally, we saw from the 2020 Open
Source Jobs Report that cloud and security skills have the biggest and third biggest
impact on hiring decisions respectively, further highlighting the talent gap
for these skills. All of these are primary reasons that CNCF and The Linux
Foundation are launching this course. By making training and certification
related to cloud and container security widely accessible, the hope is to help
close that talent gap.
The
30 hour self-paced course is conducted online, and includes learning from
industry experts and hands-on labs to give participants the experience they
need to secure their container-based applications. It covers more than just
container security, exploring topics from before a cluster has been configured
through deployment, and ongoing and agile use, including where to find ongoing
security and vulnerability information.
By
the end of the course, participants will understand security concerns for cloud
production environments and be able to harden systems and clusters, secure the
container supply chain, monitor and log security events, and more.
The
course was developed by Tim Serewicz, Senior Instructor and courseware
developer at The Linux Foundation. Tim is responsible for writing and updating
the Kubernetes Fundamentals, Kubernetes for Developers, and Kubernetes Security
Essentials courses for The Linux Foundation, among others, and was involved in
creation of the CKS exam.
Enroll today and begin bolstering your
cloud security chops!