I finally went all in on K8s! I came here to share the status of my k8s journey, but I remember that a part of this space is the success stories, cheer and morale inspiring contents. I don't want to brag but I can say I have the second role in my life that has actually been in the tech field currently. I am working with the founder of a tech start up with some ambitious goals and they hired me on good faith of my involvement in tech communities online and that they'd gone over a few of my self-hosted gitlab / mirrored github repositories and liked it that they know I am passionate and do this in my spare time and could see work I had done! I initially did not know they would ever be in the position to hire me, they were just a person I met in an online tech community I liked to share what I was working on and listen to what they were working on and became friends over time. They say they see I work on my lab essentially full time when I can afford to. And even say they would want to support that financially as an investment as I am extending my horizons and becoming a more useful asset to their missions. So I guess that is another case where it is great advice to build a homelab, to build a online presence/portfolio. All things that have been recommended here and in Mischa's Youtube Channel. I don't consider my story to be a general success story, I probably still couldn't land a mainstream job, or at least had been struggling very recently. I consider the person I am working with as a friend and someone with very similar goals and I know that contributed to this situation heavily so its a lot different. Its honestly just very warm and nice outcome nonetheless that arrived of me exploring computer science and mixing and talking to online peeps with similar mindsets. I'm not rolling in cash either 🤣 Its very fair though and honestly beyond my belief that I am getting paid at all still considering the fact a lot of my pay has been with understanding the majority of the time I was working on my homelab... The project I am tasked to work on is written in Rust and builds a single host k8s cluster... I have spent a little bit of time writing software in Golang using generative AI (claude-code) and they know this but say they want me to try and no pressure they are willing to keep me around as no doubt eventually I can figure something out to extend their reach of their goals. As a direct result I decided it might be a good idea to have a better understanding of k8s as its the underlying orchestration system that their application runs on.

This post is for everyone who's still on levels 1 to 3. Go on, say hello :-) Anyone who's level 4 or higher is only allowed to use the reply function. Let's see if this works here -Mischa

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So, i recently joined the community mainly for the Homelab , kubernetes courses but boy , i overlooked the community aspect, Mischa and Sammy are very passionate about this project They both messaged me, we're talking about custom messages (not some ai generated bullshit), i asked all my questions and they responded without judgement or something , you can clearly see that they are passionnate about what they do and they care about their members 2 Days later, i happen to get an interview for a senior cloud engineering Job and there is an interview with live coding ( without the use of chatGPT ) , i kindly asked for mischa if i'm allowed to post to seek out help, he said that the community is made for that, after making the post, mischa Commented with a 20min long Video, in where he gave advice, resources to practise and most importantly he walked me through the process of live coding. In short, you clearly see how the community aspect is very powerful, i'm really excited to be a part of this community and i'm looking forward to learning what Mischa and Sammy teach