Calling Subject Matter Experts & Interested Individuals
The CNCF and Linux Foundation Education are starting to work on a Certified Kubernetes Network Engineer (CKNE) certification exam. If you are interested in participating in the process as a subject matter expert or if you’re interested in receiving updates during the development process, please let us know by completing the form.
CKNE Domains and Competencies
20% – Core Infrastructure and CNI
- Installing and Configuring CNI Plugins
- Managing IPAM and Pod CIDR Allocation
- Using Linux Tools (iptables, ip, tcpdump) for Packet-level Issues
- Troubleshooting Pod Connectivity (DNS, pod-to-pod)
- Configuring Multi-interface Pods
25% – Service Networking and DNS
- Configuring L4 Services
- Understanding kube-proxy and CNI Alternatives
- Customizing coreDNS for Services
- Troubleshooting Service Network Traffic
- Configuring Pod Endpoint Availability
- Managing Traffic with the Gateway API (Gateway, HTTPRoutes)
20% – Advanced Traffic Management
- Optimizing LLM Traffic
- Implementing Routing to Expose Networks
- Configuring Egress Gateways for Cluster Exit Traffic
- Implementing Cross Cluster Service Discovery and Load Balancing
25% – Network Security and Policy
- Securing Traffic with Network Policies
- Implementing Node and Pod Level Encryption
- Managing TLS Certificates for Gateway API
- Implementing Pod-level Authentication and Authorization
15% – Observability
- Analyzing Network Health Using Metrics
- Troubleshooting End to End Network Performance with Tracing
- Auditing Traffic with Logs
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