The Nutanix Certified Professional - Cloud Native (NCP-CN) certification measures a candidate’s ability to deploy, configure, optimize, troubleshoot, and perform administrative tasks on a Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) cluster. Successful candidates demonstrate mastery of these skills and abilities.Â
A candidate for the NCP-CN has at least 6-12 months of building and managing Kubernetes clusters, 6-12 months of working with Linux, and 6 months of experience with a Kubernetes platform. They are typically DevOps Engineers, Cloud Engineers, NKP Administrators, Platform Administrators, or Platform Engineers. They may also be Solution Architects, Developers, Systems Engineers, or Systems Reliability Engineers.
Finally, successful candidates will most likely have taken training courses, such as the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform Administration (NKPA) course.Â
Knowledge Objectives
Section 1 – Prepare the Environment for an NKP Deployment
Seed a private registry
Create a bootstrap cluster
Determine license tiers for clusters
Prepare a bastion host
Build machine images or prepare nodes
Gather information for building a cluster on a target provider
Section 2 – Manage Building an NKP Cluster
Customize and deploy clusters
Customize and deploy Kommander and apply appropriate licenses
Section 3 – Perform Day 2 Operations
Configure authentication and authorization
Configure logging
Configure cluster backup and recovery
Conduct performance and health monitoring
Configure cluster autoscaling
Conduct lifecycle management functions
Section 4 – Conduct NKP Fleet Management
Configure workspaces
Deploy workload clusters to a workspace
Attach clusters to a workspace
Detach or delete clusters from a workspace
Configure projects
Configure platform applications
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