From Student to SRE That Loves CNCF in No Time
summary
Started with no Kubernetes knowledge and reaches CKA in 1.5 years after a five‑month internship, building a Go release manager and contributing a working Backstage import feature (private GitHub repos) that got accepted after maintainer feedback. Platform runs Kubernetes across AWS, Azure, GCP with Flux, Fluent Bit, Prometheus and Linkerd, supports ~450 microservices and 14 daily releases for a Nordic bank with 500,000 customers and ~650 employees. Also filed a Linkerd bug during an upgrade and submitted a tiny Kubernetes docs fix.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:55Student to SRE
- 4:41Internship at Lunar
- 6:37First contribution to CNCF
- 8:49How to reach the CNCF community
- 13:08Documentation contributions
- 16:36Learning
- 17:07Networking
- 18:44Join a Community
- 19:33Study Courses
- 20:29Presenting
- 21:04Summary
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