Earned RedHat Delivery Specialist – Cloud Automation

Picked up the RedHat Delivery Specialist certification for Cloud Automation. The cert covers automating infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Ansible, CloudForms, and Satellite.

The exam was hands-on, which I appreciated. No multiple choice trivia about obscure config flags. You get a broken environment and a set of requirements, and you fix it with Ansible playbooks and CloudForms policies. If it works, you pass. If it doesn't, you don't.

At the time I was doing a lot of hybrid cloud work, managing deployments across on-prem VMware and AWS. The RedHat tooling gave us a single pane for provisioning VMs regardless of where they ran. Not perfect, but better than maintaining two completely separate automation stacks.