The KubeCraft Newsletter

Most people trying to break into DevOps are studying the wrong 70 percent. You are grinding Kubernetes, stacking another cert, maybe rebuilding the homelab for the third time. Then you send applications and hear nothing back. Here is the part almost nobody tells you. Tech skills are about 30 percent of landing the job. Not 30 percent of doing the job, you need real technical ability once you are in. But tech skills are only 30% of landing the job. Think about the actual sequence of events...

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...