Finally went all in on k8s!!! · KubeCraft (Free)

Finally went all in on k8s!!!

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.

For the last 2 weeks or so I've been templating every single application I run in docker into K8s as a learning experience... I've been using claude code for this as well, but I am paying attention and having curiousity about everything in the process and initially when I discovered this channel I had an initial deployment where I did not use generative AI and did things manually. I mainly shied away from k8s because of how much yaml I would have to manipulate and a lot of it would just be very repetitive and I have MANY deployments. With this new found claude capability its gotten the time to template 100+ apps down to around 2 weeks to a month. Idk if this is good. But my commit history shows exactly how long I've been at it... I dont truly know.. But yay kubernetes. The bulk of what I planned on saying is yayyyyy kubernetes fam!!! and was gonna drop my repo. Im also using fluxcd and Mischa was one of the first people I saw a lot of content that helped me to personally understand how fluxcd works so I am still grateful! I love flux and I am loving Hashicorps Vault and SOPS! Even if I dont know I can ever afford kubecraft and I have been away from youtube and not active on here that much in my adventures, I still support Mischa's YT channel and this community! :D CHEERS GUYS. And heres a fluxcd k8s repo if you wanna peep it :D

If you want to recycle any of my deployments for use in your own lab be weary of tactical-rmm, frappe-erpnext, gitlab, and appflowy. I am still working on tweaks to properly declare these services for production use and I havent tested any of the traefik ingress stuff yet 🤣👏🏽 But K8s lab lets goooo!!! K8s is awesome!!!

https://github.com/sofmeright/Dungeon/tree/main/fluxcd

Thankssss for the vibes and the free knowledge bro! <3 Long live Kubecraft!

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