Notary Advanced Training
Design signing PKI, key rotation and multi-cluster verification policy for an enterprise software supply chain. Learn Notary through a clear Foundation to Advanced path, with hands-on labs, live cohort options, certification support and full LMS access.
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Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes all four levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- All four Notary levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
About Notary Advanced Training.
Understand where Notary fits in modern software delivery, what this level covers, and how the program builds practical confidence step by step.
Program overview
Notary is taught as a practical technical skill for modern engineering, operations and platform teams. The course explains where the tool fits, how it is used in real delivery environments, and how learners can apply it through guided practice.
This DevOpsSchool Notary program is built for working professionals who want usable skills instead of only conceptual exposure. The training emphasizes live examples, workflow clarity, operational controls and progressive skill depth from Foundation to Advanced.
Private Notary training for delivery teams, platform groups and engineering organizations.
DevOpsSchool provides corporate Notary training for teams that need faster adoption, workflow standardization, administrative control, integration guidance and governance-ready rollout. Private batches can be aligned to development practice, release workflow, access model, maturity level and internal tooling.
- Private online or classroom delivery for engineering teams
- Aligned to Notary usage maturity, admin depth and collaboration patterns
- Useful for rollout, migration, governance and workflow consistency goals
- Can be tailored for developers, administrators, DevOps teams and leadership stakeholders
Why teams use DevOpsSchool
DevOpsSchool combines live demonstration, practical workflow discussion, implementation-oriented examples, and strong post-session learning support. That makes the training more usable for real teams than generic slide-led courses.
Choose any level. The page still shows the full progression.
Foundation, Essential, Intermediate and Advanced are presented as one linked training flow. Self-paced buyers get all levels by default, even if they start from only one course page.
Instructor-led, self-paced and corporate delivery options.
Compare delivery format, duration, level access and batch style. Fees are shown only in the top decision panel and once again after the agenda.
| Duration | Mode | Level access | Batch |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | Live & Interactive | Advanced | Public batch |
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | 1:1 Live training | Advanced | Starts immediately |
| 1 year LMS access | Self-paced video | All 4 levels | Anytime access |
| 5 Days | Corporate | Notary Advanced Training | Private team batch |
What learners should be able to do after Notary training.
The outcomes are written for practical delivery teams: developers, DevOps engineers, release engineers, administrators and technical leads.
Sign and verify artifacts
Sign container images and other OCI artifacts with Notation and verify them with precise trust policies.
Enforce signatures at deploy
Block unsigned or untrusted images at Kubernetes admission using Ratify, Gatekeeper or Kyverno.
Run trustworthy signing PKI
Design certificate hierarchies, KMS-backed keys, timestamping and revocation for production signing.
Why this skill, what you will achieve, and who should attend.
Use this section to decide whether the course matches your role, current experience and expected Notary responsibilities before reviewing the detailed agenda.
Why Notary matters
- Notary helps teams standardize a critical part of their software delivery, infrastructure, automation or operations workflow.
- It gives learners a repeatable way to move from basic usage to confident execution in team and enterprise environments.
- For DevOps and platform teams, Notary becomes more valuable when connected with automation, governance, monitoring and delivery practices.
- Teams using Notary effectively reduce ad-hoc execution and move toward consistent engineering standards.
Objectives
- Understand Notary concepts, architecture, terminology and operational usage patterns.
- Learn practical configuration, workflow design, access controls, team usage and quality practices.
- Apply Notary in real delivery workflows using automation, integrations, traceability and governance patterns.
- Build practical confidence to use Notary for individual, team and organizational use cases.
Pre-requisites
- Basic computer literacy and familiarity with software development workflows.
- Helpful but not mandatory: introductory DevOps, cloud, automation or software delivery awareness.
- No deep programming background is required for the Foundation and Essential levels.
Who this course is for
- Developers, administrators and engineers who need practical Notary usage skills.
- DevOps engineers, release engineers, SREs and platform teams managing delivery standards.
- Engineering leads and technical managers responsible for workflow quality, access controls and governance.
- Corporate teams migrating to or standardizing on Notary.
Small-batch live training starts every month.
Weekday batches start on the 1st and weekend batches on the first Saturday of every month. One-to-one (1:1) training can start immediately; corporate sessions are scheduled on demand.
Weekend live batch
Starts on the first Saturday of every month. Weekend sessions with demos, labs and Q&A; max 10 learners.
Weekday live batch
Starts on the 1st of every month. Weekday sessions for working professionals and distributed teams; max 10 learners.
Ask advisorAgenda depth up to the selected level.
This page shows the learning flow from Foundation through Advanced. Each level adds to the previous one, and the agenda stops at the current page level. Day counts are for corporate (day-wise) delivery; live online batches cover the same agenda in max 8 to 10 hours.
Foundation Level: supply chain trust and first Notation signatureDay 1
- Why sign artifacts: supply chain attacks, tampered images, integrity and provenance goals
- Notary history: Notary v1 and TUF, Docker Content Trust and the move to the CNCF Notary Project
- Core concepts: signatures, X.509 certificates, signing identities, trust stores and trust policies
- OCI fundamentals: images, manifests, digests versus tags, OCI 1.1 artifacts and the referrers API
- Notary Project components: Notation CLI, specifications, notation-go library, plugins and the Ratify verifier
- Installing Notation: binary install, notation version and a local OCI registry such as Zot or Distribution
- Test keys and certificates: notation cert generate-test, notation key list and where keys are stored
- First signature: notation sign by digest, notation ls to list signatures and notation inspect
- First verification: notation verify with a basic trust policy and a CA trust store
- Signature envelopes: JWS and COSE formats and what a signature manifest contains
- Notary Project and Sigstore Cosign compared: keys, keyless signing, ecosystem support and selection criteria
Essential Level = Foundation + trust policies, registries and team signing workflowDay 2 · 2 days cumulative
- Trust policy in depth: registryScopes, verification levels strict, permissive, audit and skip, trustedIdentities
- Trust store management: notation cert add, list and delete, ca, signingAuthority and tsa store types
- Production certificates: chains from an internal CA, key usage requirements and certificate validity
- Registry support: Azure Container Registry, Amazon ECR, Harbor and Zot, referrers API and tag fallback
- Signing in CI: notation-action in GitHub Actions and Notation tasks in Azure Pipelines after the build step
- Signing by digest: avoiding mutable tags, capturing pushed digests and passing them between pipeline jobs
- Signature metadata: adding --user-metadata annotations and enforcing them during verification
- Expiry and timestamping: --expiry, RFC 3161 timestamp authorities and verifying after certificate expiry
- Docker Content Trust on Notary v1: DOCKER_CONTENT_TRUST, docker trust sign, inspect and delegations
- Team workflow: who signs, separate development and release identities, signing gates on merge
- Troubleshooting verification: scope mismatches, untrusted certificates, digest errors and --debug output
Intermediate Level = Essential + KMS plugins, Kubernetes admission and automationDay 3 · 3 days cumulative
- Plugin architecture: how Notation plugins work and installing them with notation plugin install
- Azure Key Vault plugin: signing with Key Vault certificates and managed identity access
- AWS Signer plugin: signing profiles, profile revocation and the AWS Signer trust store
- Other key stores: community plugins for HashiCorp Vault and HSM-backed signing options
- Ratify on Kubernetes: installing Ratify with Gatekeeper, verifier and store configuration, constraints
- Kyverno verification: verifyImages rules of type Notary with certificate attestors
- Admission rollout: audit mode first, then deny unsigned images per namespace with documented exceptions
- Signing more than images: notation blob sign for files, Helm charts and OCI artifacts pushed with ORAS
- Supply chain evidence: SBOMs in SPDX or CycloneDX and vulnerability reports attached as OCI referrers
- Revocation checking: OCSP and CRL handling during verification and responding to a compromised key
- Promotion pipelines: build, scan with Trivy, sign, then copy with referrers using oras cp -r
- Auditing: Gatekeeper audit results, Ratify logs and reporting unsigned workloads
Advanced Level = Intermediate + enterprise PKI, policy governance and hardeningDays 4-5 · 5 days cumulative
- PKI design: root and intermediate CAs, leaf certificate lifetimes, HSM-backed keys and rotation plans
- Key compromise response: revocation, re-signing images, trust policy updates and incident runbooks
- Timestamping strategy: choosing a TSA and keeping signatures valid after certificates expire
- Multi-tenant trust policies: per-team scopes, trusted identities by subject and separation of duties
- Air-gapped environments: mirroring images with their signatures and maintaining offline trust stores
- Geo-replicated registries: preserving signatures during promotion, import and replication
- Migration from Notary v1: moving Docker Content Trust and TUF repositories to Notation signatures
- Framework mapping: SLSA build levels, in-toto attestations and NIST SSDF practices
- Policy at scale: Ratify, Gatekeeper and Kyverno policies rolled out to many clusters through GitOps
- Resilience: verification caching, registry outages and fail-open versus fail-closed admission decisions
- Compliance evidence: signed-workload reports and audit exports for SOC 2 and ISO 27001
- Capstone: end-to-end signed supply chain from commit to cluster with KMS keys, TSA and admission enforcement
Choose live training or a full year of self-paced access.
If someone buys Foundation, Essential, Intermediate or Advanced as self-paced video, the price stays the same and access is granted to all four levels by default.
Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes all four levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- All four Notary levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
- Start immediately: no waiting for the monthly batch.
- One learner, one trainer: full attention on your questions.
- Sessions planned around your working hours.
- Your pace, with examples from your own projects and tools.
Method of training and assessment.
The course emphasizes practical demonstration, hands-on labs and assignment-based validation instead of passive lecture-only learning.
| SL | Method of training and assessment | Weightage |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Understanding the problem space | 5% |
| 2 | Concept discussion | 10% |
| 3 | Live demo and walkthrough | 25% |
| 4 | Lab and hands-on exercises | 50% |
| 5 | Assignments and evaluation | 10% |
Labs, exercises and real workflow practice.
Every level moves from explanation to hands-on practice, review and troubleshooting.
Sign and verify your first image
Push an image to a local registry, sign it by digest with a test certificate and verify it with a trust policy.
Sign images in a CI pipeline
Build an image in GitHub Actions, sign it by digest with a CA-issued certificate and verify it with a strict trust policy before release.
Block unsigned images in Kubernetes
Sign images with a Key Vault or AWS Signer key, deploy Ratify with Gatekeeper and prove that unsigned or tampered images are rejected.
Build an enterprise signed supply chain
Issue signing certificates from an internal CA, sign and timestamp release artifacts in CI and enforce verification across two clusters via GitOps.
Notary is taught as part of a working delivery ecosystem.
You learn where the tool sits in the wider engineering workflow, not in isolation.
Core foundations
Terminology, concepts, architecture and the operating model behind the tool.
Workflow traceability
Map practical work to tasks, approvals, documentation and delivery visibility.
Automation and integration
Use Notary with validation checks, automation hooks and delivery workflows.
Governance controls
Operate with permissions, approvals, policy checks and production-safe workflows.
How your practical work is assessed.
Your certificate is backed by labs, assignments, capstone thinking and completion evidence.
Assignments
Level-specific assignments verify setup, configuration, workflow quality and operating discipline.
Hands-on validation
Learners are expected to complete practical usage, automation and troubleshooting exercises.
Completion record
Certificate issuance is tied to demonstrated participation, practical completion and course-level coverage.
Led by Rajesh Kumar and the DevOpsSchool practitioner network.
Training is grounded in practical DevOps, SRE, security, release and platform engineering experience with real enterprise delivery context.
Earn a DevOpsSchool Notary certificate.
Completion includes a digital certificate with credential details, practical assignments and a learning record aligned to the selected Notary level.
Certificate verificationCertificate of Completion
Notary Advanced Training
Unique credential ID, verifiable online
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Used by developers, DevOps engineers, release leads and engineering managers.
Private batches are available for teams that want the same agenda aligned to their own tools and workflows.
Why this Notary path is different.
The value is not only one course. The subscription unlocks the full learning ecosystem for one year.
| Feature | DevOpsSchool Notary Training | Typical short course |
|---|---|---|
| Levels | Foundation, Essential, Intermediate, Advanced | Single generic syllabus |
| Self-paced access | All four levels plus 20+ courses and 50+ tools | Usually one course only |
| Live training | Demos, labs, Q&A and assignment review | Often lecture-heavy |
| Certificate | DevOpsSchool completion certificate | Varies by provider |
Questions learners ask before joining.
Does Foundation cost less than Advanced?
No. Self-paced pricing is intentionally the same because access includes all four levels by default.
What is included in the yearly subscription?
One year of complete LMS access, all four levels for the selected course, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
Can corporate teams request customization?
Yes. The live format can be aligned to team tools, governance requirements, workflows and internal delivery standards.
What is the recommended sequence?
Foundation → Essential → Intermediate → Advanced. The agenda is designed so each level builds on the previous one.
Talk to DevOpsSchool before choosing the batch.
Use this support section for batch questions, corporate planning, LMS access clarifications, or guidance on which Notary level fits your team.
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