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.
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...
How to learn to code for DevOps & Kubernetes
"Now that AI can do all of our coding, should I still learn to code?" Someone asked me this during a live coaching session in KubeCraft this week, and I think it's the most important question in DevOps right now. Short answer: yes. Let me explain why. Why DevOps Engineers need to write code Some people describe DevOps Engineers as "system administrators who learned how to code", and I think that's accurate. In the old days, software was literally deployed by copying files to servers and...
100 applications, zero replies (it's not your fault)
Hey Reader, When I think back to the time when I was sending my first applications for tech jobs, I immediately feel pain. I still feel that tightness in my chest and a strange sensation in my stomach. Even after 5 years into a successful tech career. Every time I got a rejection letter, or a company ghosted me, I would feel that pain. I never want to go back there. The reality is that most career changers I talk to are experiencing this every single day. Maybe you’re one of them. Maybe...
If I threw your laptop into the sea
Hey Reader, If I took your laptop right now and threw it into the sea, what would you lose? How long would it take you to rebuild it? Not just “I can check email.” I mean your entire environment. Your editor configured exactly how you like it. Your shell tools. Your SSH keys. All your personal files restored. For most engineers the honest answer is days. I think that’s a problem worth solving. I apply “cattle versus pets” thinking to everything I do, even my personal workstations. Everything...
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.