The KubeCraft Newsletter

Hey Reader, Every year it's the same in this industry: hiring winds down as people prepare for the holidays. Then in January, new budgets get approved, and hiring picks up again in a very specific window. That window starts in January, and that's less than 60 days from now. Now be honest with yourself: Are you ready to strike 60 days from now? Do you have an irresistible portfolio of projects? Are you getting messaged by recruiters every day (like my students)? If you gave me 60 days to get...

Four stories today, from four KubeCraft members with four different starting points. Read them next to each other and you stop seeing four stories and start seeing one, told four times. Pedro was a restaurant manager with no tech experience. Dalton had no production experience at all. Joe was a front-end dev with zero Kubernetes. Kevin spent 20 years as a manufacturing engineer in semiconductors. Pedro, on his interview: "During my interviews I presented my homelab as my resume and it...

Hey Reader, Two weeks ago I announced the Winter Sprint. Today I want to show you what the 60 days actually look like. The Winter Sprint runs inside KubeCraft: 60 days, from November 6 to the January hiring wave, with 45 people building toward the same goal. Three phases. Phase one: fundamentals and the homelab. You need to have your fundamentals down so that you're not stumbling over your words in these interviews. This has to be locked inside of your mind. Then you spin up a...

Automate yourself out of a job. Sounds like terrible career advice. If you automate everything you do, why would they still need you? I used to work with a team that thought like this. Mostly sysadmins that had been doing similar things for 20+ years. Every month they had a manual patching process with a few bash scripts as the extent of their automation. Some ticketing system that told them which runbook to follow. Or worse a ticket for a problem that was handled with tribal knowledge. They...

Hey Reader, I posted something inside the KubeCraft community. We're doing a 60 day sprint with even more intense coaching and support. I asked people if they were ready to lock in and start an intense grind to the next hiring wave that's coming in January. The comments started stacking up. 45 people have already committed. Here's what they're committing to. The KubeCraft Winter Sprint: 60 days to an offer letter. Most people treat the end of the year as dead time for their career. They sit...

Hey Reader, Are you looking for a job in DevOps or Kubernetes? If landing a tech job is one of your goals in 2026, keep reading, because I have something special for you. You're Invited On Tuesday, October 20th at 5PM CEST, I'll be doing a live workshop teaching the DevOps roadmap that I normally only use for my paid students. I'm going to walk through the roadmap that's been completely refreshed and updated for 2026. Because a lot has changed since the YouTubers made their roadmaps. If...

If you're learning Kubernetes right now, or you're going to learn it this winter, my new video is for you. In it, I show you the easiest and fastest way to get a Kubernetes cluster up and running. You see, most people set out on their Kubernetes learning journey, look in the Kubernetes documentation and find kubeadm. Or they watch some of my homelab videos and spend time setting up K3s. And that's the thing most people get wrong. Well over a thousand people have learned Kubernetes inside my...

Hey Reader, The way you prompt AI will decide whether you're employable in two years. Claude and Codex have solved the ability to write code in proper syntax and style. This has led engineers to lazily delegate all of the decision making. If you use AI in your development workflow and sometimes feel bored waiting for AI to complete, you're probably one of those engineers. There are two ways you can prompt AI to write code. Goal oriented - "Build me a web app that lets users upload files,...