The KubeCraft Newsletter
Weekly DevOps career tips and technical deep dives. My mission is to help you land your next DevOps, Platform Engineering or SRE role, even if you are brand new. I went from nurse to DevOps and I can help you do the same.
I spent $15.000 on this
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3000 Kubernetes engineers all said this:
Hey Reader, You're reading blog posts about what to learn next. Watching YouTube videos about trends. Scrolling through Reddit threads debating Kubernetes vs. whatever else someone is pushing this week. And you're still not sure if you're betting on the right thing. Here's what nobody tells you: the debate ended a while ago. You just weren't in the room. I was. I just walked through halls with 13,000 people. Nvidia, Uber, Airbnb, the European Space Agency, the German military. All running...
Your career change scores 160+ on this scale (yikes)
Hey Reader, A career change is not a side project. I know because I've done it twice. Project Manager to nurse. Nurse to DevOps Engineer. Both times I underestimated what it would do to me. Not the technical part, that is usually fine. I'm talking about the the psychological part. There's a reason for that, and it's been scientifically measured since 1967. Two psychiatrists at the University of Washington — Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe — spent years studying the medical records of over...
why i'm still coding by hand in 2026
Hey Reader, You're using AI to write your Terraform files. Your GitHub Actions pipelines. Your Kubernetes manifests. And it works. Until it doesn't. Then you're staring at an obscure error message in the middle of the night with no idea what went wrong. You paste the code back into ChatGPT. It goes in circles. Production is down. Most people think AI replaced the need to code by hand. I think it did the opposite. The engineers who thrive in the AI era aren't the ones who use it the most....
not feeling confident?
Most people want to jump straight into the exciting stuff. Kubernetes. Cloud. GitOps. Automation. And I get it. That’s the fun part. But a lot of people quietly struggle with the same underlying issue: Their Linux foundation is weaker than they think. They know commands. They’ve opened a terminal. They’ve worked with Ubuntu or WSL. But when real troubleshooting starts, that confidence disappears fast. And that matters more than people realize. Because Linux is not some side topic in DevOps....
His manager had never been impressed before (until now)
Hey Reader, Levente just got offered a DevOps role. But that’s not the part that got me. This is: “Even my manager was impressed — I’ve never seen him impressed by anything before — when I showed him my half-baked git repository with automatic deployment and patch management.” Half-baked. Months ago. And his manager still said it was too advanced for their current workflows. That’s what happens when you build the right way. The KubeCraft way. Levente didn’t have years of DevOps experience. He...
You don't have the job you want because of this
Hey Reader, You're studying Kubernetes from tutorials. Maybe you passed the CKA. Maybe you even spun up a cluster once or twice. But you still don't have the job. Here's why. Hiring managers don't care that you can follow a tutorial. They care that you've built something real. Something messy. Something that runs 12 database clusters, scrapes APIs on a schedule, and auto-merges pull requests while you sleep. That's not a lab. That's a production environment that happens to run on $150...
He answered every question right. They still didn't call back.
Hey Reader, A computer engineering graduate told me something last week that stopped me cold. "I have pieces of information. What I need now is something to connect them together." He'd been studying for months. Free courses. YouTube tutorials. freeCodeCamp. Dozens of hours invested. And it was working... sort of. He was landing interviews. Answering the technical questions correctly. Then silence. No callback. No feedback. No idea what went wrong. Here's what went wrong. Hiring managers...
Do you feel trapped in your current job?
Hey Reader, There's a phase of your career nobody warns you about. You pick a path. You commit to it. You get qualified. The experience builds. The routine sets in. People start seeing you as "the nurse" or "the teacher" or "the accountant." And then one day... it doesn't feel right anymore. The problem isn't that you picked the wrong career. You just outgrew it. The thing that got you here now feels like a box you can't get out of. That's exactly where I was. Six years ago I was a nurse....
Stop stacking certificates (do this instead)
Hey Reader, Imagine you’re trying to expose an app to the internet and every connection times out. Everything seems right, and there are no error messages. It should work! What would you do next? That’s where Tobias, one of my KubeCraft students, found himself last week. After joining one of the mentorship calls we host 3x/week, he went back in with a plan. He read the logs line by line. He ran manual TCP and UDP connection tests from the command line. Eventually he traced the issue to his...
Weekly DevOps career tips and technical deep dives. My mission is to help you land your next DevOps, Platform Engineering or SRE role, even if you are brand new. I went from nurse to DevOps and I can help you do the same.