Learning in 2026 with AI - How I Prepared for and Passed KCNA

Clearing the Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA) certification exam brought me here to write this down. From a 90s kid who spent his school life surrounded by physical books and who started his IT career the same way, nose deep in a manual to using AI-powered resources you can actually have a conversation with, ask questions back and forth, and get answers in real time. That journey, looking back at it now, is something worth capturing. I used to read my Red Hat books front to back. The