We’ve had over 1,000 students take our platform engineering certifications, and I’m extremely excited to announce the most technical one we’ve ever done. If you are someone who wants to get your hands dirty, write code, play with labs, and become the technical platform engineering master your org needs, that’s exactly what the Platform Engineering Certified Architect course was built for.

Industry-leading platform masters Ajay Chankramath and Bryan Oliver dive deep into the architectural frameworks and automation patterns that leading organizations use today (and give you a hands-on capstone project that ties everything together).

By the end of the course, you’ll be able to:

• Build and automate compliant, secure platform foundations
• Implement Policy-as-Code with OPA, Gatekeeper, and Kyverno
• Design APIs and CLIs for seamless developer interaction
• Integrate Falco and SPIFFE/SPIRE for Zero Trust runtime security
• Use Kubernetes Operators to automate platform operations
• Deliver and present your own full-stack platform architecture

Each module builds toward a complete architectural IDP solution based on K8s, covering everything from foundational setup and compliance automation to runtime security, platform APIs, and full-stack automation workflows. 

The course includes live sessions, recordings of all (so no worries if you can’t join live), a Slack community for discussion and group learning, and direct Q&A access to two top experts in the field.

If you joined this course, you will not only be a certified platform engineering architect by 2026, but you will also enter the new year with the most advanced and up-to-date understanding of how to deliver successful platform engineering.

There is no better use of that last remaining learning budget. See you there!