After signing my first client with a very low budget, an old colleague contacted me on LinkedIn saying he needed help with some DevOps work. I told him I could do it — but only through Upwork because I needed help building reviews. It wasn’t a high-profile or high-budget project, but I signed him anyway. After completing these jobs, I got 5-star reviews and hit 100% JSS. And Client #1 started a long-term collaboration with me. Then the day came that every freelancer waits for — a client reached out to me on their own, without any proposal. We signed a contract on my terms. I’m now working with them and expecting more work ahead. I’m still in my struggling phase, but I love my small wins.A girl who knew nothing about freelancing left her job and started something completely new with high goals, big thinking and a persistent attitude. I believe these are small steps toward my bigger vision. I’d be more than happy if any of you take your first difficult step because of this story and if anyone needs help, I’d love to support you.

Welcome to KubeCraft. The community where (aspiring) DevOps engineers become undeniable. You are not here to collect endless tutorials. You are here to get hired, build real skills, and move forward with people who want the same outcome. Inside KubeCraft, we share one mission: Become a high paid DevOps engineer while solving real world problems together trough DevOps Craftsmanship. You are no longer doing this alone. You are part of a focused group built to push your growth every step of the way. We help you to: • Build real world DevOps skills through projects, challenges, and proof of work • Land your first DevOps role or level up your current one • Stay accountable inside a community that expects action, not excuses You are in the right place if: • You want to become a DevOps or Cloud engineer and are passionate about this craft • You are willing to do the work, ask questions, and support others • You want a real DevOps environment, not another passive course platform Follow these steps: 1. Post your introduction below (and level up to level 2+ fast) 2. Like & reply to other introductions 3. Your onboarding shows how this community works and what is expected 4. You will see exactly how to create momentum fast with the Welcome to the KubeCraft, Crafter. Let’s get to work.

One thing I’ve learned on this journey is that sometimes the biggest breakthroughs come from the smallest shifts.For me, that shift was when someone encouraged me to apply my DevOps skills inside real e-commerce environments. I wasn’t trying to switch fields I just wanted a place to practice for real.But that experience taught me more than I expected: I learned how systems behave when real people are using them. I saw how automation and monitoring actually support a live business. I understood the difference between knowing a tool and owning a result. What surprised me most wasn’t the technical part it was how much confidence it gave me.Not because everything worked perfectly, but because I finally saw my skills making real impact. It reminded me why many of us joined this community in the first place:To grow. To build. To see our knowledge come alive. Just curious has anyone here found an unexpected place where your DevOps skills became useful? Would love to hear your experiences.

Just recently we saw what Gemini 3 Pro can do for websites. I decided that i have to use this to my advantage to build the Minecraft Server Management Dashboard of my dreams. I wanted to have my own project that i manage in a Development Environment and later send it to a Test, Production Environments to understand the big picture ideas. I got these ideas from a book i recently finished called The Phoenix Project, i'll make another post for it later in the future. So far i'm pulling modpacks via Modrinth API and be able to show every modpack's descriptions so i can understand what are their contents. Even though i'm gonna work on the website itself simultaneously, this week goals are: - On every push to Github repo, Github Actions runs tests and build docker images for backend & frontend individually then runs the containers on my server pc - Give it a domain name via reverse proxy with Nginx - Expose the metrics from containers and put them in Prometheus so i can watch them on Grafana I tweak and setup the website with AI and i like how it looks so far but the automation, the DevOps part excites me the most 😂 Can't wait to see how everything works by itself without me doing anything 😎 If you have any recommendations for DevOps structure, i'd love to hear them out. This will be my long term project for my homelab but i think it will be worth doing since it's so much fun!

Today I got my Microsd card for the Rasberry pi started reading documentation on pihole as well as a few linux commands for it to get working. Even though it is a small project im currently learning how to use unbound to locally resolve dns queries. It such a nice feeling when things start working.