SUSE Cloud Native Foundations | Scholarship Program by Udacity

Learn to apply modern cloud native application development and DevOps principles and accelerate your career growth.

Udacity is collaborating with SUSE, a global leader in true open source solutions, to empower developers and operations specialists to meet today's high growth career challenges. We invite students 18 years of age or older who want to build new cloud native application development, deployment, and management skills to apply to the SUSE Cloud Native Foundations Scholarship Program.

The applications for this scholarship will be accepted between April 6, 2021 and May 25, 2021. Once applications are closed, 15,000 applicants will be granted entry into the Foundations course to participate in the scholarship challenge. Over a two month period, scholarship challenge participants will learn how to structure, package, and release an application to a Kubernetes cluster, while using an automated CI/CD pipeline.

At the conclusion of the scholarship challenge period, 300 finalists will be selected to receive SUSE Cloud Native Foundation Scholarships. Scholarship winners will be awarded free access to the full Nanodegree program, Cloud Native Application Architecture!

A well-prepared learner will meet the following prerequisites for this scholarship:

• Understand the basics of http (like client, server, and internet request)
• Basic Python (data types, Functions, REST requests, web development)
• Ability to use Git, Linux machines, and Linux Command Line
• Familiar with Web application development in any language
• Familiarity with Docker and exposure to a CI/CD pipeline are not required for success in this program but are helpful skills to have.

The program takes place 100% online. You can work from wherever you want as long as you have a working internet connection.

Scholarship Timeline:

Application

Applications Open: April 6th, 2021 - May 25th, 2021
Foundations Course Winners Announced: June 3rd, 2021

Scholarship Challenge
Foundations Course: June 7th, 2021 - August 2nd, 2021
Nanodegree Scholarship Winners Announced: August 12th, 2021

Nanodegree Scholarship
Nanodegree Program: August 16th, 2021 - December 6th, 2021

Students who complete the foundational course will receive a certificate of completion from Udacity. Scholarship winners who complete the full Nanodegree program will be awarded a Nanodegree certificate.