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CGOA · 2 days (14 h)
CGOA Exam Preparation — Certified GitOps Associate
GitOps principles done properly — desired state, reconciliation, drift — to establish a shared vocabulary and pass the CGOA certification.
Objectives
- Pass the CGOA multiple-choice exam
- State and apply the OpenGitOps principles
- Distinguish GitOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code — and make them work together
- Choose a suitable GitOps pattern: mono-repo, multi-repo, environments
Audience
Engineers and leads who deploy through Git and want to anchor their GitOps practice in solid principles rather than tool habits.
Prerequisites
- Hands-on Git experience: branches, merges, and pull requests
- Application deployment notions — Kubernetes appreciated, not required
Program
Terminology
- Desired state, observed state, drift
- Reconciliation and control loops
GitOps principles
- Declarative, versioned, pulled automatically, continuously reconciled
- What GitOps is not
Related practices
- CI/CD, IaC, DevOps: the boundaries
- Secrets and compliance in GitOps
Patterns, tooling, and mock exam
- Repository structures and promotion across environments
- Overview: ArgoCD, Flux, and the others
- Annotated mock multiple-choice test
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