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Keynote: Are Certifications Worth It? - Cheryl Hung, Vice President - Ecosystem, Cloud Native Computing Foundation
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A
When
I
recorded
my
keynote
a
few
weeks
ago,
none
of
us
knew
that
he
was
going
to
leave
us
so
soon.
So
I
wanted
to
share
memory
with
you
first
and
that's
the
very
first
time
that
I
spoke
to
dan.
While
I
was
interviewing
for
cncf,
so
I'd
prepared
by
you
know
talking
about,
I
knew
in
my
head
what
I
was
going
to
say
about
my
experience,
why
I
would
be
good
for
this
role
and
dan.
He
when
he
picked
up
the
phone
to
me.
The
first
thing
he
said
to
me
was
cheryl.
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After
cncf
you
could
become
the
executive
director
of
your
own
foundation
or
you
could
start
a
startup
or
you
could
become
a
vc
or
you
could
join
one
of
our
member
companies,
and
I
was
so
surprised
because
I
was
like.
Aren't
I
supposed
to
be
proving
to
you.
Why
I'm
good
enough
to
do
this
job?
Why
are
you
talking
about
what
should
happen
after
I
do
cncf,
but
that's
how
he
thought
about
people
and
that's
how
he
thought
about
the
community.
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For
that,
I'm
very
grateful-
and
I
know
many
of
you
who
knew
dan
are
also
very
grateful
and
in
the
spirit
of
that
I'm
going
to
spend
the
rest
of
my
keynote
talking
about
the
training
and
certification
and
education,
upskilling
yourself
and
your
teams,
but
I
just
wanted
to
say
thank
you
dan.
We
all
miss
you.
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According
to
the
2020
open
source
jobs
report
from
the
linux
foundation,
devops
is
the
most
sought
after
job
role
with
65
of
companies
looking
to
hire
more
devops
talent
and
the
average
salary
for
a
kubernetes
job
in
the
us
is
148
000
dollars
with
cover
19.
Everyone
has
way
more
time
at
home
than
normal,
and
we
have
seen
incredible
growth.
Incredible
demand
for
training
and
certification.
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for
hiring
managers.
Obviously,
a
certification
is
not
the
same
as
real
world
experience.
I
definitely
know
this
because
when
I
was
a
devops
manager
back
in
2017,
it
was
just
basically
impossible
to
find
anyone
with
experience
running
kubernetes
in
production.
So
during
interviews
I
would
you
know,
look
for
cloud
native
mindset.
Does
this
person
think
about
releasing
frequently
do
they
think
about
monitoring
their
life
systems?
Do
they
think
about
automation?
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And
I
remember
I
had
one
really
memorable
answer
to
this.
One
candidate
said
we
build
our
software
using
containers
and
jenkins.
So,
like
okay,
all
sounds
pretty
good
so
far,
and
then
we
burn
our
software
to
dvds
and
we
ship
those
dvds
out-
and
I
just
had
this
mind-blown
moment
because
wow
we
have
come
a
long
way
from
shipping
dvds
through
the
mail
to
what
people
expect
nowadays
from
software
and
a
huge
part
of
that
is
thanks
to
the
many
contributors
who
have
put
their
time
into
cloud
native
projects.
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But
where
did
these
six
topics
come
from?
So
let
me
tell
you:
this
is
john
foreman.
He
is
a
senior
technical
architecture
manager
at
accenture
and
over
the
last
two
years
he
had
seen
a
shift
in
client
questions
from
what
are
containers
to.
How
do
we
secure
containers
and
to
him
that
disconnect
was
because
current
security
tools
were
not
container
aware?
So,
although
teams
were
good
at
monitoring
servers,
operating
systems
and
network
layers,
the
container
clusters
just
consistently
went
unmonitored.
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So
john
and
I
we
had
a
coffee
in
cubecon
san
diego
and
he
asked
whether
cncf
would
create
a
new
security
focused
certification,
which
would
be
the
gold
standard
for
when
companies
hire
talent
or
encourage
their
current
staff
to
get
certified,
and
I
said
yeah
that
sounds
great,
because
I've
also
seen
the
same
growing
demand
for
container
security
specialists.
The
open
source
jobs
report
agrees
after
cloud
technologies
and
linux.
Security
is
the
third
highest
priority
knowledge
area,
but
this
certification
has
to
be
community
driven
because
it
has
to
reflect
security
practices
across
many
different
companies.
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Because
to
answer
the
question
of
what
do
certifications
cover,
it's
the
community
duh
the
community,
always
decides.
What
is
most
important
last
question:
is
this
a
fair
test
and
do
you
need
real
skills
to
pass
it?
Well,
there's
only
one
way
to
find
out.
I
think
I'm
gonna
go
and
try
it
myself.
So,
let's
go
over
to
a
laptop.
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So
my
task
is
to
find
the
pods
running
on
any
nodes,
having
a
memory
limit
configured
and
write
the
name
of
the
pod
with
the
highest
memory
limit
configured
to
this
file,
slash
up
slash
whatever
whatever
so
my
first
task,
I'm
going
to
look
at
the
cluster
and
look
at
the
nodes
with
cube
ctl
get
nodes,
looks
like
this
is
a
three
node
cluster.
I
have
kubernetes
master
0,
kubernetes,
node,
0
and
kubernetes
node
1..
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So
to
me
I
actually
do
feel
like
this
is
a
fair
test,
because
you
have
to
be
comfortable
with
a
command
line
with
cube
ctl
and
other
tools
that
assist
admin
would
typically
use
over
15
000
people
who
have
already
completed
the
cka
or
ckd
and
most
people
agree
it's
pretty
hard.
One
said
we
think
certification
is
really
valuable
and
our
engineers
found
the
training
and
exam
approach,
fair
and
practical,
as
it's
performance
based,
not
theoretical.