At work, I click a button and get a Kubernetes cluster. Click another button, add a node. When you deal with that much automation, you start to forget — or you just don’t wonder — how things actually work underneath. So I built Kubernetes from scratch. No buttons. No managed services. Just me and the components. The Abstraction Thing Look, abstraction is good. It’s how we ship fast and scale without losing our minds. ...
I passed the CKA in January after four attempts. It taught me how to use Kubernetes. But understanding how the pieces actually fit together — that comes from building it yourself. The CKA taught me how to deploy pods, manage services, troubleshoot containers. Mumshad’s KodeKloud course covered the architecture — the API server, etcd, scheduler, controller-manager, kubelet. But KTHW makes you build those connections yourself: generating the certificates that secure communication between components, creating the kubeconfig files that authenticate them to each other, manually starting each service and seeing how they register. ...
I haven’t posted on Medium since August of 2022. A lot changed and has happened since then. When I last wrote, I was four weeks into my first tech role. Six months of grinding through a DevOps bootcamp had finally paid off. From accountant to engineer — the switch was real. So started to enjoy the fruits of my labor, lived a little. As a result I stopped learning outside of work. I got comfortable. ...