> The CKA program is separate from Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP) program. You can become a CKA without needing to be involved with a KCSP, but for a company to become a KCSP it must employ at least three CKAs. You can learn more about the KCSP program.
Ideas for local hosting services:
Managed Services; supply the customer with trained consultant(s), and Pager Duty (*) personnel to scale one or more business apps with a zone in your datacenter that OpenTofu (Terraform) in CI/CD can deploy to (from Gitea Actions on k3s/k3d in Podman Desktop or Docker Desktop; awesome-selfhosted)
ChatOps, DevOpsSec upsell, InfoSec referrals, SLA Contracts for 99.99999% uptime, HA consulting,
Managed (tape) backups,
OpenStack, OpenShift, Monitoring
* Their free open source; Incident Response docs specify roles, procedures, terminology, acronyms,.