Start your Cloud Native journey the right way!

Take the next step towards your personal or professional learning goals with courses designed to help you navigate the cloud native landscape.

  • Learn from industry experts

  • Test your knowledge with interactive quizzes

  • Earn a digital badge on course completion

Why Rancher Academy?

  • Better Kubernetes, Faster

    • Demystify Kubernetes and adopt best practices for deployment, management and security.
    • Free to use, Rancher Academy provides rich, structured online courses, whatever your expertise.
    • Learn the fundamentals and expand your knowledge including track the latest eco-system advancements.

  • Build Resilience

    • Create a strong Kubernetes knowledge base throughout your organization.​
    • Upskill your capabilities to improve talent acquisition and retention of technical resources.​
    • Set your organization up for future success!​

  • Increase Productivity

    • Scale with confidence by equipping your team with strong Kubernetes and Rancher knowledge.​
    • Foster a culture of experimentation and innovation.​
    • Spend less resources on break-fix issues and focus on what matters - your business outcomes.

Meet your instructors

Orlin Vasilev

Principal Technology Advocate

Orlin Vasilev is Principal Open Source Technology Advocate and Community Manager for Project Harbor and K3s at SUSE. A second-term CNCF Ambassador, he’s dedicated to growing strong, inclusive open source communities worldwide. With 15+ years in SysAdmin, Dev, SRE, and system engineering roles, Orlin now empowers others to adopt and contribute to cloud native technologies. Outside of tech, he’s an avid snowboarder, DIY enthusiast, and semi-professional BBQ pitmaster and baker.

Robert Sirchia

Head of Community Evangelism

I am Robert Sirchia the Head of Community Evangelism at SUSE. I have been working in technology for over 20 years. Most of that time has been spend in the .NET and Microsoft space. Moved towards the cloud when .NET became a first-class citizen on them. And I have never left.

Divya Mohan

Principal Technology Advocate

Divya is the co-creator of the KCNA exam, a CNCF ambassador, and a documentation maintainer on the Kubernetes project. With extensive experience in legacy & cloud-native systems administration, she is on a mission to simplify cloud native for everyone.