Mirantis Partners With OpenStack Foundation to Support Upgraded COA Exam
Oct 17, 2019
By Dave Van Everen
Answering community demand, the Certified OpenStack Administrator Exam is back and now available for the Rocky release
Campbell, CA, October 17, 2019 — Mirantis announced today that it is providing resources to the OpenStack Foundation, including becoming the new administrators of the upgraded Certified OpenStack Administrator (COA) exam.
“With the OpenStack market forecasted to grow to $7.7 billion by 2022 according to 451 research, the demand for Certified OpenStack Administrators is clearly strong and set to continue growing for many years to come,” said Mark Collier, COO of the OpenStack Foundation. “We are excited to collaborate with Mirantis, who has stepped up to provide the resources needed to manage the COA, including the administration of the vendor-neutral OpenStack certification exam.”
During the three years of the COA offering, nearly 3,000 professionals across 77 countries have taken the exam, providing qualified talent to meet the growing number of OpenStack job opportunities. The exam’s intent is to seed a vibrant market and ecosystem of OpenStack professionals and training providers, and there are now dozens of OpenStack training providers around the world.
“As one of its early community leaders, Mirantis has trained more than 20,000 professionals on OpenStack and continues to see significant career opportunities for individuals with skills in administering and operating the platform,” said Dave Van Everen, SVP, Marketing, Mirantis. “We’re extremely proud of our accomplishments as an OpenStack training provider and look forward to our collaboration with the OpenStack Foundation continuing to offer a vendor-neutral certification exam that can help community members grow their careers in meaningful ways.”
Anyone interested in becoming a COA can buy an exam through the OpenStack website or through one of the many OpenStack training partners in the marketplace. If an organization is interested in becoming an official COA Training Partner, please contact ecosystem@openstack.org.
About the OpenStack Foundation (OSF)
The OpenStack Foundation (OSF) supports the development and adoption of open infrastructure globally, across a community of over 100,000 individuals in 187 countries, by hosting open source projects and communities of practice, including datacenter cloud, edge computing, NFV, CI/CD and container infrastructure.
About Mirantis
Mirantis helps organizations achieve digital self determination by giving them complete control over their strategic infrastructure. The company combines intelligent automation and cloud-native expertise for managing and operating virtual machines, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud environments. Mirantis lets platform teams deliver a public cloud experience on any infrastructure, from the data center to the edge, with one cohesive cloud experience for complete application and operations portability, a single pane of glass, and automated full-stack lifecycle management, all based on open source using open standard APIs.
Mirantis serves many of the world’s leading enterprises, including Adobe, DocuSign, Inmarsat, PayPal, Societe Generale, and S&P Global. Learn more at www.mirantis.com.
