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.
AWS released a DevOps AI Agent.
Hey Reader, AWS released their DevOps AI agent. I did a deep dive and managed to separate the marketing from the facts. Is it going to replace DevOps jobs or not? Watch this week's video to find out: P.S. The engineers panicking about AI are the ones clicking buttons in the AWS portal. Craftsmen aren't worried. They're being hired to run the infrastructure AI actually lives on. If you want that depth, click here to book a free Career Strategy session. Book Your Strategy Call
AI is killing DevOps (here's why I'm thrilled)
Hey Reader, There is a message that lands in my inbox at least once a week. It is always some version of the same thing. "It is over, Mischa. AI is going to eat all of this. Kubernetes is too complicated. Half the bootcamps are pumping out grads better than me. Why am I even bothering?" The person writing it is usually smart. Usually has a real job, or is close to landing one. Usually two or three years into the field, far enough in to see how big the field is and far enough out from the...
You're invited, [FIRST NAME GOES HERE]
Hey Reader, Did you know that 93% of employers can’t find enough people with Linux and cloud skills? That means if you already know Linux, you’re sitting on one of the most in-demand foundations in tech, and most people have no idea what to do with it. You’re Invited I’m doing a live workshop called Linux Career Paths, where I’ll break down the 10 highest-paying career paths that all start with Linux. Including exactly how much each one pays and which one is right for you. There are only 100...
Stuck on MacOS or Windows?
You didn't choose your operating system. It was chosen for you. By your employer. By your university. By whatever came pre-installed on the laptop your parents bought you in college. And you never questioned it. You just kept logging into someone else's ecosystem. Syncing to someone else's cloud. Running your career on a platform you never actually selected. Most engineers treat their tools like furniture that came with the apartment. You don't love it. You just never moved it. But here's the...
A Sushi Chef Taught Me More About DevOps Than Any Course Ever Did
Hey Reader, The best lesson I ever learned about DevOps didn’t come from a course. It didn’t come from a certification. It didn’t come from a senior engineer. It came from a 100-year-old sushi chef working out of a subway station in Tokyo. His name is Jiro Ono. His tiny 10-seat restaurant held 3 Michelin stars for 12 years. He started his apprenticeship at age 7. He’s been making sushi for over 70 years. He turned 100 last October and he’s still not retired. When asked the secret to his...
I spent $15.000 on this
Hey Reader, We just rebuilt the KubeCraft website from the ground up. New look and feel, and way easier to find what you need. Go check it out and let me know what you think: 👉 Click here to take a look Talk soon, Mischa P.S. in the age of AI, Lovable and other generators, I paid craftsmen to build this website instead. The result is much better.
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....
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.