The KubeCraft Newsletter

For 12 years, I couldn't focus without smoking weed or drinking. I'm not exaggerating. At 16, I was smoking joints at 9 in the morning before school, because it was the only way to keep my mind still enough to learn anything. Today I'm 8 years sober, and I can hold my focus on one thing for 12 hours straight. That shift is the biggest reason I went from working as a nurse to a multiple-6-figure DevOps career, 110,000 subscribers, and two Microsoft MVP awards, all in the span of 5 years....

I just bought an eight year old laptop for $150. Not for me, but as a daily driver for someone I care about. His way of life makes a brand new MacBook exactly the wrong choice, and the reason has nothing to do with money. So I set it up with Linux from scratch, on camera, first boot and all. Watch the full setup here. The part at the end, about what these machines can do after they retire as daily drivers, might be my favorite. Mischa P.S. When you're ready to go beyond a first Linux install:...

Hey Reader, So many people list "Docker" on their CV. When I'm interviewing candidates, I'll ask "cool, so how are you running Docker?" Most people can't even answer beyond "I installed Docker Desktop". Here's what they don't know: Docker has a dirty secret. Every time you run a container with a default Docker install on Linux, there's a background daemon running as root with full access to your system. Yes, Docker added rootless mode. But it's opt-in. Most engineers never enable it. There is...

France just made one of the most radical tech decisions I've ever seen from a government. They're pulling 2.5 million computers off Windows. But that's not the part that made me record a video. There's an American law that most people have never heard of. And once you understand what it actually allows, you'll never look at your Microsoft account the same way again. Then there's the Linux distribution they picked. Out of every distro in the world, one French agency chose the one nobody saw...

Hey Reader, If you've been applying all summer and hearing nothing back, it's not your CV. It's the calendar. Right now, hiring is winding down. Half of every team is on holiday, and nobody onboards a new engineer into a half-empty office. Then September hits and everything snaps open. Hiring managers come back with budgets they need to spend before the end of the year. Roles go live fast. September and October are prime time for landing DevOps jobs. THE PART ALMOST EVERYONE GETS WRONG...

You keep sending applications and hearing nothing back. Here is the part nobody tells you: that silence is not random, and it is not you. Tech hiring runs on a hidden schedule, and right now you are on the wrong side of it. Most job seekers are doing the exact opposite of what they should be doing this month, and it quietly costs them the best opportunity of the whole year. Because a window is coming where the game completely flips. The people who prepare for it now will look lucky in a few...

You keep hitting the same wall. Every DevOps role you want asks for five to eight years of experience you have not been given the chance to earn, and another month of tutorials has not closed the gap. So I recorded a conversation with Erick, one of our members, who was stuck in that exact spot and clawed his way into a senior DevOps role. Before this, his hands-on experience was a free AWS account and a stack of tutorials that never quite turned into anything. YAML files looked scary to him...

Hey Reader, I want to share my CKAD exam experience with you. If you are preparing for this certification, or even just considering it, you will be glad to hear it is the most enjoyable of all the Kubernetes exams. Let me break down why, and exactly what you need to know. What makes CKAD different The exam has a heavy focus on practical implementation: working with pods and deployments, managing storage provisioning, and handling secrets. What I love about it is that it tests real-world...