The KubeCraft Newsletter

Google "DevOps roadmap" and you'll get ten websites saying ten different things. Here's the problem with all of them: they're rarely written by people actually working in the field. And worse, they're written from an engineer's perspective. Not from the perspective of landing a job. Let me show you what I mean. Landing a DevOps job is actually six separate things that all have to happen: You have the relevant tech skills ✅ (the only step the roadmaps cover) An employer becomes aware you exist...

Most engineers chase speed on the command line by collecting more tools. A new terminal, a new plugin, another shortcut pack, and for about a week it feels like progress. I did exactly that for years. The engineers who are genuinely fast did the opposite. They never went wider, they went deeper on the five or six tools they already had open every single day. That is the real gap, and it has almost nothing to do with discovering some tool nobody else knows about. I just published a video on...

Almost everyone who writes to me about breaking into tech makes the same quiet assumption. They think the hard part is the technology. They believe that if they can just grind through enough Kubernetes tutorials and collect enough certificates, the career change will follow on its own. I understand why. The technology is the part you can see, so it feels like the whole mountain. But I have changed careers more than once, and I can tell you the technology was never the thing that almost broke...

Hey Reader, I noticed you haven't registered for the Kubernetes Fundamentals workshop yet. Kubernetes has a bad reputation for being hard to learn, but in this workshop I'm going to prove the opposite. Having a good teacher will make all the difference, and I'll save you from making mistakes that would cost you hundreds of hours. In 24 hours from now, I'm going to do a live teaching session to explain Kubernetes from the ground up. I'll also show you how to run your first cluster and how to...

255 billion dollars. That is the size of the AI inference market by 2030. 66% of every AI workload already runs on Kubernetes. Which means more than half of a quarter-trillion-dollar market is sitting on top of one skill. The CNCF, the body that governs Kubernetes, declared it "the de facto AI operating system" this year. Uber, Airbnb, NVIDIA, the French railways, the German military, and the European Space Agency are running it in production. These are not startups experimenting. These are...

I run the biggest Kubernetes career community on the internet. A member just challenged me with 13 Kubernetes facts they thought I didn't know. Fact number nine destroyed me. The official changelog from December 2017 settled the pronunciation of kubectl as kube-control. I have been saying it wrong for six years, in every video, every workshop, every live stream. The history of your tools is the layer tutorials never touch. You learn the commands. You build the clusters. You ship the...

Hey Reader, Did you know that Kubernetes engineers have a mean global salary of $171,717 per year, and there are over 100,000 open Kubernetes jobs on LinkedIn right now? It's also the single most important skill to master if you want to land a Platform, DevOps, or SRE job in 2026, especially as the entire AI infrastructure stack is now built on top of it. You're Invited For the first time ever, I'll be doing a live workshop teaching Kubernetes Fundamentals. I'll teach you how this technology...

Hey Reader, I recorded a conversation this week that I need to share with you. It's with Dane Barber. He's 57 years old, he joined the community a little under five months ago, and on Monday he starts a new role that pays him more than double the most he has ever earned in his career. Before he joined, Dane was a software engineer. Then his company decided to go all-in on AI and let go 90% of the staff, including him. He spent months looking for work. Nothing landed. And that was on top of a...