GitOps Certified Associate (CGOA)

Supercharge your DevOps practice and become a GitOps pioneer with the GitOps Certified Associate (CGOA) course!

GitOps is redefining modern software operations—enabling teams to achieve massive scalability, security, and agility by managing infrastructure and application delivery through Git. This course is your practical gateway to mastering GitOps fundamentals, preparing for the CGOA certification, and transforming your CI/CD workflow the cloud-native way.

Why GitOps?

GitOps is fast becoming the cornerstone of cloud-native operations, adopted globally to deliver rapid, reliable, and auditable infrastructure and application changes. As organizations scale and automate, GitOps know-how is a top skill for DevOps engineers, platform teams, SREs, and cloud architects.

What you’ll learn:

GitOps Fundamentals & Terminology:

Kick off with a hands-on introduction to GitOps, exploring its core purpose, declarative approach, and the power of Git as the single source of truth. Deep dive into key concepts like desired state, reconciliation, drift, feedback loops, and rollbacks—grounded with practical examples.

Essential GitOps Principles:

Master the four guiding GitOps principles and how they apply to real-world deployments. Explore the significance of declarative configuration, continuous reconciliation, and manual interventions. Get an actionable start with ArgoCD: install, configure, and deploy your first apps through immersive labs.

GitOps Deployment & Release Patterns:

Unlock advanced GitOps deployment strategies, from rolling, recreate to blue/green, canary, A/B, and shadow releases—brought to life with interactive demos. Explore progressive delivery with Flux and Flagger, and compare pull-based versus event-driven approaches. Get hands-on with secure secrets management using Bitnami Sealed Secrets.

Mastering GitOps Toolchains:

Deep-dive into the leading reconciliation engines: ArgoCD, FluxCD, and more. Discover core concepts, features, and installation workflows. Learn to manage deployments using Source Controller, Kustomize, and Helm—across both Git and OCI registries. Integrate packaged manifests and orchestrate end-to-end deployments, with robust monitoring and alerting via Prometheus, Grafana, and DORA metrics.

Integrating Related Practices:

Widen your cloud-native skillset with practical Configuration as Code (CaC), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and the interplay between DevOps, DevSecOps, CI, and CD. Put learning into action via focused demos and labs, highlighting the synergy between these critical disciplines.

Certification Readiness:

Wrap up with exam-focused mock tests to consolidate your skills and ensure you’re fully prepared to achieve your CGOA certification.

Who should take this course?

• Cloud engineers and SREs seeking to manage Kubernetes and cloud-native environments using GitOps best practices
• Platform engineering teams looking to automate and streamline deployments across modern infrastructures
• DevOps practitioners eager to modernize CI/CD pipelines with declarative, version-controlled workflows
• Developers and architects interested in enabling secure, auditable, and scalable software delivery
• Anyone preparing for the GitOps Certified Associate (CGOA) exam—no prior GitOps experience required