Always happy to hear this kind of positive feedback I've only been at KubeCraft for less than a week, but I am already gaining valuable insights from the content and delivery of the course. I feel fortunate to be part of such a supportive community. Having taken many courses in the past, I can confidently say that resources of this quality are hard to find. I believe this investment is truly worthwhile. Props to Mischa and the team 👏 🙌

It's Monday right now 🚀 What are your plans for scaling up your DevOps career in the next couple of days? If you don't have any plans yet, come up with one. 💡 💬 Comment below! (My answer will be in the comments.)

Whether you're transitioning from another tech role or entering the industry fresh, what's the #1 obstacle standing between you and your DevOps career? Is it a specific technical skill? Understanding the job market? Knowing where to focus your learning? Share your challenge below - sometimes just putting it into words can help clarify your next steps!

Yesterday I learned something crucial. I finally understand how OAuth works. I'm a little bit ashamed to admit it, but even though I have worked with auth providers quite a bit, I never took the time to fully understand what they actually do. I've deployed Keycloak to production environments. I've set up countless Enterprise Applications and App Registrations in Azure. I've configured client secrets, helped people fix scopes. All without really understanding what it truly meant, and what goes on under the hood. Sometimes, there is not enough time to dive deeper, because there is always much more to learn. As long as my customers were able to log in to Keycloak and it was running properly, I had done my job. But yesterday I finally took the time to understand more about it, and I was a bit baffled with how simple it is. I'm working on a new project for KubeCraft and I decided I'm going to write a proper API for it in Python using FastAPI. But this time I wanted my endpoints to be secured properly. The FastAPI tutorial is truly a gem. The same goes for Typer for creating CLI's. If you are looking to dive deeper into Python, I highly recommend this resource. Simply by going through the Security tutorial, I learned step by step what happens when we go through an OAuth flow. I learned that there really isn't much magic to it: JWT is actually very simple. It's tokens that are signed with a secret, and they can be verified by the server that created them. Very similar to SSH keys. After a bit of study I figured out how token refreshing works, and I was almost done. After learning this, I was able to create an API where only users with a valid token can get responses from the API, and my mission was accomplished. I wish I had done this years ago. It's a great project which will help with your general understanding of how applications work. Did you have any breakthrough moments? Did you ever do a simple project, which gave you a great amount of learning?

Hi friends, May I ask you a question? Please post in the comments where you are from. This way, we can see where all the members live. Afterward, take a look through the comments and feel free to like or say "hi" to members who are from your area. I'm super curious to see where you're all from and will read every single comment. Let's gooooo! - Mischa 🫡