Officially a Kubestronaut

I’m happy to share that I was recently added to the CNCF Kubestronaut program. I’ve refreshed the three performance-based Kubernetes certifications in CKA, CKAD, and CKS, as well as two foundational MCQ-based evaluations (KCNA and KCSA).

Here’s my listing: https://www.cncf.io/training/kubestronaut/ and list of achievements.

It looks like I am amongst 80 individuals in Canada, and 3022 globally.

Looking forward to exploring and participating in all that this program has to offer.

On the preparation side, I wanted to point out that in addition to the excellent simulators (killer.sh and killercoda.com), Claude was instrumental in helping me prepare efficiently. I asked it to provide multi-pronged scenarios which helped me develop speed on the CLI and connect the dots more accurately because I scrutinized every response back from the model.

Overall, it was a great experience, and I’m looking forward to great things in 2026!