🏫 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

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Thank you for participating in the giveaway! Here is the list of winners who would receive a free exam key to “Using Linux Terminal”. The details on how you can redeem your key will be shared shortly via your Discourse messages, so keep an eye out.

@tatjana-dubrovica @crisdel @kunalvaidya @john-fiumara @adammarkham @Russell @yorkearwaker @iosifidis @hamzaelzarw @diogoconstantino @ranggachan @jmarcelinho81 Congratulations!! :tada:

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Awesome, looking forward to it!

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Dear @ishanighoshal ,

Will do. :nerd_face:

Many thanks. :star_struck:

Yours,
York

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thats awesome,
thanks

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I think, for a topic domain covering multiple disciplines, I would suggest

  • “professional” or “specialist” office management systems as a generic middleware + service tools pairing would cover a lot of much-needed range of capabilities which would cover a lot of ground where penetration might find much support/demand;

then

  • domain-specific tweaking template for the above, such as for medical clinics (general practice), medical clinics (specialist practice), dental clinics (general practice), dental clinics (specialist practice), etc.

  • country-specific tweaking template overlay on the above, such as for Germany, Turkey, Cuba, India, Japan, Brazil, Morocco, China, Egypt, South Africa, Canada, etc. Basically a “regulatory compliance” workflow overlay, which would dictate some specific forms and data fields unique to each Country.


As an aside, regarding the “prize” awarded, I might be wrong, but I think the general expectation might have been to obtain an “Exam Key” for one of the first sessions given of the newly selected topics that would be put on offer!

As I said, I might be wrong, but I don’t think so because, after all, you could reasonably expect that most Community Members already know how to use their Linux Terminals or, when a project indicates a need, they dig up the kernel of knowledge required on the fly.

P.S. I am not looking for a key myself.

:slight_smile:

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Since Canonical has a pretty nice LXD system It would be great to have a exam for this.

Also full path of exams for becoming SysAdmin as well as DevOps with Ubuntu infrastructure. Something similar RHCSA from Red Hat. I am using Ubuntu in various environments (including daily driver at work) and I would appreciate having SysAdmin cert to confirm my knowledge.

Another thing: Enterprise usage of Ubuntu Desktop/Server. Since more and more companies are moving to Ubuntu as main OS on company laptops and still operate on Active Directory, it would be nice to have exam confirming usage for enterprise. I am doing daily setups for DevOps which are using Ubuntu as OS and had to go through automatization for deployment of Ubuntu as OS in enterprise to have it properly initiated with AD and InTune as well.

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Canonical Academy continues to raise the bar for skill validation!
Introducing new technologies and tracks will definitely help professionals stay future-ready.

Here are a few high-impact areas you might consider adding next:

:small_blue_diamond: Cloud & DevOps Specializations – Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, and Cloud-Native observability
:small_blue_diamond: Security Tracks – Cloud security, Zero Trust, Linux hardening, identity & access management
:small_blue_diamond: Platform Engineering – Internal developer platforms, automation, and reliability practices

Excited to see Canonical Academy shaping the next generation of experts.
Count me in for the free exam key giveaway!