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Red Hat Certified Developer in Cloud-native Applications

Standardize your team on Red Hat Certified Developer in Cloud-native Applications with a structured Red Hat training path — team admin reporting included on every CBT Nuggets Teams seat.

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Course
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Core skills
$400
Exam fee (Red Hat)
Linux systems administrators reviewing terminal output beside server racks
Difficulty
Difficulty: 3 of 5 (Moderate)
Moderate
Exam fee (Red Hat)
$400
Courses on path
1
Official source
Red Hat’s official exam page
Exam code
  • EX188

Exam datasheet

Format
Multiple-choice and performance-based questions
Prerequisites
Relevant work experience or have taken the preparation course through Red Hat.
Recommended experience
Experience with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and Kubernetes
Recertification
3 years
Testing center

Exams

Exams for this certification

Exam fees per engineer, paid to the exam vendor$400

Exam — Required

Every engineer on the Red Hat Certified Developer in Cloud-native Applications path takes EX188.

  1. EX188Red Hat Certified Developer in Cloud-native Applications exam
    Exam fee
    $400
    Exam length
    2.5 hours
    Questions
    6-10 tasks
    Passing score
    210/300

    Exam blueprint: EX188

Skills your team builds

Container managementKubernetesOpenShiftApplication deploymentContainer orchestration

Training path

Your team's training path

One CBT Nuggets course covers the full Red Hat Certified Developer in Cloud-native Applications path. Your team can start today and have admin reporting visible from day one.

  1. Start here · primary course

    Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containers

    This intermediate Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containers (EX188) training prepares learners to deploy, manage, and secure containerized applications in Red Hat, as well as troubleshoot and optimize container performance for scalable and efficient cloud environments. Learn how to work with containers, focusing on making CI/CD pipelines more efficient, and minimizing friction between development and operations teams.

    John McGovern
    65 videos6h
    Open course

Every certification course includes

  • Expert-led video training
  • Per-team completion reporting

Red Hat career ladder

Where Red Hat Certified Developer in Cloud-native Applications sits in your team's Red Hat progression

The cert your team is on now, plus the levels above and below. Use this to map an engineer's next-step credential or to plan headcount coverage across tiers.

  1. Associate level

    1 cert

    Red Hat Certified System Administrator

    EX200

  2. Professional level

    1 cert

    Red Hat Certified Engineer in Ansible

    EX294

  3. Specialist level

    2 certs

    Red Hat Certified Developer in Cloud-native Applications

    EX188

    You are here

    Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Network Automation

    EX457

Customer outcome

Build EX188 capability across the whole team, not one engineer

Assign the Red Hat Certified Developer in Cloud-native Applications course to the engineers who need it, and the team report shows who has started, who has finished — the view leadership uses to see Red Hat skills coverage across the team and where the gaps are.

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Team capability

Make EX188 a number on your team capability sheet, not a single engineer’s certificate.

Standardizing your team on EX188 gives leadership a clear picture of Red Hat skills coverage — who has completed the training, who is still on the path, and where the gaps are — so staffing and escalation plans rest on known capability instead of on one engineer.

Credential: Red Hat Certified Developer in Cloud-native Applications

Exam
  • EX188

Frequently asked questions about Red Hat Certified Developer in Cloud-native Applications training

Common questions IT directors ask when evaluating Red Hat Certified Developer in Cloud-native Applications training for their team.

How does Red Hat Certified Developer in Cloud-native Applications fit into our compliance or governance program?

Teams often cite EX188 when documenting who is trained to build, run, and secure containerized services with Podman, alongside completion exports from team reporting as training evidence. The formal mapping to any control framework is decided by your auditor's crosswalk, so treat the certification as supporting documentation of role coverage rather than a control in itself.

Who on the team should hold Red Hat Certified Developer in Cloud-native Applications, and what can a certified team own?

It fits developers, systems administrators, and platform or site reliability engineers who package and operate containerized applications. The linked course covers running containers with Podman, creating custom images, private registries, storage and permissions, troubleshooting and autostarting containers, and Podman Compose and networks. A certified team can take ownership of the image build and container runtime layer for the services it ships.

What does CBT Nuggets Red Hat Certified Developer in Cloud-native Applications training include for a team?

CBT Nuggets Red Hat Certified Developer in Cloud-native Applications courses are built by named expert trainers. Where a course includes hands-on virtual labs or a practice exam mapped to Red Hat's published exam objectives, the course list on this page says so. Team admin reporting tracks assignment, completion and exam readiness per engineer — the view managers use to run a team training program.

How do I assign and track Red Hat Certified Developer in Cloud-native Applications training for my team?

From the admin console, managers assign the Red Hat Certified Developer in Cloud-native Applications courses directly to specific engineers or role groups and track completion and practice-exam scores per learner. Team-wide reporting rolls up to a single dashboard you can review or export for leadership reviews or compliance reporting.

How long does it take to certify a team on Red Hat Certified Developer in Cloud-native Applications?

The linked live course totals about 6 hours of video, ending with a dedicated EX188 exam preparation lesson. The overall time to certify depends on the team's starting point, particularly prior Linux command-line and container experience, and how much hands-on Podman practice each engineer gets before booking the exam.

What if Red Hat updates the Red Hat Certified Developer in Cloud-native Applications exam objectives?

CBT Nuggets updates Red Hat course content as exam objectives refresh, and this page shows the current exam's status and any retirement date the vendor has announced. When Red Hat restructures or renames a track, the assigned training stays aligned with the same team training plan, and the training stays current without anyone losing their progress mid-stream.

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