@Alan Varghese I recommend know the fundamentals of at least one programming lanaguage as a DevOps engineer, but more is better. You're already in KubeCraft so check out the Roadmap course there, it has more information on this topic!

@Ignacio Catrileo Send a message to Laura!

@Kazik Kluz If you can afford it and if you want to learn cloud skills it can be a good option

(78) He Landed a Senior SRE job with his Homelab - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFrPJImR5vM Transcript: (00:00) What's up guys? I just wanted to share this win from the CubeCraft community. Eric here landed a senior S sur role and I think he just did a great job in explaining the interview process how we went about this and I think it's good to share it with you so you can also learn how to do this. So Eric here he describes last week I accepted an offer for an S sur role after a three round interview process and I want to give major credit to the hands-on experience I gained through my CubeCraft home lab setup. So, right off the bat here, you (00:31) read that this stuff that I've been preaching on this channel for months, years now, is that this stuff works, guys. Build a home lab and do it today. You won't get it by just doing certifications. He he shows it here in the first sentence. He says that his Cubere home lab setup helped him with this. (00:54) So how the company found me? He applied over a 100 roles and it's a health a tech health organization using AI migrating their monolithic applications to cloud services running on Kubernetes. Again here's another trend that I I'm harping on all the time. Learn Kubernetes guys. Do it. You have to learn Kubernetes because this is where the the money is. (01:15) This is where everything is going. And not just for running applications. It's also for creating a a an API that ties everything together. Kubernetes is taking this role. Mark my words. So after he submitted his resume, the the resume, the HR coordinator reach out and the interview process kicked off from there. (01:35) Drawn by their mission, technical challenge and a chance to help drive their cloudnative transformation. So this is very important that you select companies based on their mission, their values. If you want to stay there long term, it's also very important that you that you select a company and apply for it. And then this drive, this this this identification with their values also comes through in the interview process.

@Eliorion Eliorion Glad it could inspire you!

(78) Why Kubernetes Skills Are Your Fast Track to Financial Freedom - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-rBpnp4BP4 Transcript: (00:00) I went from being a nurse to earning multiple six figures as a DevOps engineer with complete location freedom. Here are the five reasons this career changed my life. The first reason this changed my life is because of the location freedom. As I said, I used to work as a nurse and I had to go into the hospital every single day and to work with the patients there. (00:20) Now, I didn't like that. I I wanted to work from home. That was really a goal I had in life to have the ability to work from home. And secondly, working as a nurse was very hard for me because I'm actually a very introverted person. And at the end of the day, I was always very exhausted by giving my my full attention to all of these patients and I was just going to burn out in the end. (00:43) So I had to figure out a way to land a tech job and I made that my life's mission and I succeeded and 5 years later I have complete location and financial freedom. It's the best decision I made in my life. The main thing that I love about this is that I can actually work from home from my own setup. So I, like I said, I'm introverted and I also like to have quiet around me. (01:06) I don't like to sit in an office and I get really distracted when there are conversations going on around me. So I actually work best when I am alone at home being able to focus on one task and I get so deep into it. Then yeah, my productivity is definitely five times higher than when I would be sitting in an office with people interrupting me, three conversations going on. It doesn't work for me. (01:30) And the second thing is that it also allows me to travel while working. So I bought a camper van and I absolutely love just taking my camper van on the road, being able to work from my camper van using Starlink and then traveling around as I'm doing this. Actually, someone I know does this full-time with a family.