I’ve interviewed DevOps candidates who couldn’t rename 30 files at once. They had AWS certifications. They had Kubernetes experience. They had years on their resume. But when I asked them to automate a simple task without Google, they froze. ​ Here’s the truth most people won’t tell you: Many "DevOps engineers" today are just professional button clickers. They know where the buttons are in the AWS console. They can copy-paste commands from Stack Overflow. But they don't know how to use Bash properly. They are not able to write shell scripts. ​ This single weakness is keeping them stuck at $80K while others make $200K doing the same job title. ​ You Are Using Your Computer Wrong Think about how you interact with your computer right now. You point. You click. You drag. You drop. You repeat the same 47-step process every time you need to do something. Computers were invented to free humans from repetitive labor. Instead, we’ve turned them into elaborate pointing-and-clicking machines. Every time you click something, you’re doing a computer’s job for it. Every time you manually repeat a task, you’re trading your time for laziness. Every time you can’t automate something, you reveal a fundamental gap in your skill set. And hiring managers see it immediately. ​ The Power That Cannot Be Faked When I was a Junior DevOps Engineer, I watched a senior solve in 10 seconds what took me 2 hours. He didn’t install a special tool. He didn’t use a fancy GUI application. He typed a single line of bash. My jaw dropped. I asked him immediately if he could teach me. That moment changed my career. ​ The command line provides capabilities that no graphical interface can match. Rename 500 files based on patterns? One line. Find every log file containing a specific error across 20 servers? One line. Transform data, filter it, and pipe it to another tool? One line. Automate a deployment that takes 45 minutes by hand? One script. This kind of power cannot be replicated in a GUI. Ever. Once you experience it, you can never go back to clicking.

Hey KubeCraft fam! Starting an epic homelab project that's got me both excited and terrified 😅 The Setup: Connecting Czech Republic (Sprint ISP) to Zambia (Starlink) for a truly distributed learning environment. Because why make things easy, right? Architecture Overview: CZ: HP EliteBook 725 G3 (Ubuntu 24.04) + HP 820 G2 (Windows) ├── K3s cluster (master node) ├── Jenkins CI/CD ├── Prometheus/Grafana monitoring └── WireGuard VPN server ZM: HP EliteBook 840 G5 ├── K3s agent node ├── Edge computing workloads └── Starlink connectivity (CGNAT challenges ahead!) Cloud: Azure AKS + Arc integration Technologies I'm Tackling: - Container Orchestration: K3s → AKS hybrid setup - GitOps: ArgoCD for automated deployments - Security: Trivy scanning + Vault secrets management - Networking: WireGuard over Starlink (pray for me 🙏) - IaC: Terraform for everything - Observability: Full Prometheus/Grafana stack Where I Need Your Expertise: 1. Starlink + CGNAT: Best approaches for VPN? Thinking WireGuard + Cloudflare Tunnel backup 2. Resource Optimization: Running enterprise stack on limited hardware—your hacks? 3. Real-World Scenarios: What outages/incidents should I simulate for learning? 4. Monitoring: What metrics actually matter in production? 5. Security: Essential hardening steps for a homelab that mimics production? Current Skills: - Solid foundation in Linux, Git, networking basics - Working through OCI DevOps Professional certification - Python scripting capabilities growing daily The Goal: 12 weeks to a portfolio that screams "hire me for your DevOps team!" This community has been incredible for learning—now I'm ready to build something real. Who's got war stories or wisdom to share? Drop your thoughts, roast my architecture, or share your own homelab wins/fails below! 👇 #kubernetes #devops #homelab #starlink #azure #prometheus #terraform #learning

Hello friends! What have you been working on this week? Learning for a cert? Building a project? Or enjoying holiday? Share it below! :) I've been working on YouTube videos and hope to finish two of them next week.