🏫 Shape the Canonical Academy (Giveaway)

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:school: Shape the Canonical Academy :school:

Canonical Academy empowers individuals and enterprises with comprehensive, industry-recognized qualifications to validate their professional skills.

:key: Tell us what technologies or tracks should we introduce next and enter our free exam key giveaway.

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I’m thinking containers could be good topic and cloud.

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It could be, following Cloud Native technologies:

  • Openstack Certification
  • kubernetes Certification (microk8s, charmed)
  • Mlops certification
  • Administrator certification (security, networking, etc)
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Please introduce training materials and exams for

  • system programming,
  • user mode - kernel mode drivers development,
  • learning about various tools useful for debugging driver issues.
  • Languages and tools
    ** Rust for e.g. Learning new technologies that are being picked up by canonical

and then these can help apply for job at Canonical Embedded positions,

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I’d love to see some Ubuntu Security & Data/AI fundamentals

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Great discussion; I’ve really enjoyed the ideas shared so far. Here are a couple that I think would be valuable additions:

Open Source Contributor Certification – best practices for participating in open communities including Git workflows, documentation, licensing, and typical collaboration norms.

MSP Enablement Track – operating Ubuntu-based managed services. Teach skills around patching, compliance, observability to drive consistency and reliability across providers.

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Excellent initiative! Canonical Academy should expand beyond basic sysadmin topics into cloud, DevOps, cybersecurity, edge/IoT, advanced networking, virtualization, observability, etc.

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Dear Canonical Academy team,

Please consider

  • build tool chains for different architectures, including cross compilers, and sandbox test envs
  • neuromorphic computing, FACETS, ANC, SpinNNaker
  • microelectronics, edge, IoT, IIOT, IoT networks, long range WiFi, ubuntu core,
  • climate modelling, numerical weather/climate prediction NWP, extreme weather attribution, extreme weather prediction,
  • health, medicine, public health, global health, disaster response, emergency response,
  • hybrid energy, renewable energy,

Yours,
York

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I would like to see prompting. There is no “certification” for such thing (I think).

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I was thinking of a track covering Packaging for Ubuntu, covering both Debian packaging fundamentals and modern packaging approaches.

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Definitively LXD, Juju and MAAS should be addressed.

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Canonical Microcloud Certification, with hands-on Lab to try LXD, Ceph, OVN, Juju, etc.

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I would like to see a path for a career with Canonical.
Openstack Fundamentals, then Practitioner, same for Ceph, Security and integrate this with AI/ML as well