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From Student to SRE That Loves CNCF in No Time - Jacob Valdemar Andreasen, Lunar
A year ago Jacob knew nothing about Kubernetes, Linkerd, or any other fancy CNCF projects. Jacob had been studying Software Technology for two years where he learned to write code and use software design patterns. In his fifth semester, Jacob decided to try something new and joined Lunar as a Site Reliability Engineer for a five-month full-time internship where he contributed to CNCF projects and learned to develop and maintain a GitOps based Kubernetes platform. By constantly questioning his knowledge and pushing his boundaries Jacob steadily learned how to navigate the CNCF environment. Now, 1 year and 6 months later, Jacob is a Certified Kubernetes Administrator and continues to work at Lunar where he plays with Kubernetes, Flux, Fluent Bit, Prometheus, Backstage, Linkerd, and many other exciting CNCF projects. By following Jacob’s journey we will explore the opportunities and obstacles you face as a student wanting to start their journey towards working as a platform engineer.
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A
A
So
right
now
I'm
a
solid
reliability
engineer
at
luna.
I've
been
at
luna
for
around
two
years.
My
name
is
jacob
and
I'm
also
a
student
at
orange
university,
which
is
located
in
located
in
denmark,
I'm
studying
for
a
master
of
science
in
computer
engineering
and
I've
been
studying
for
around
four
years
now.
A
A
A
So,
as
I
said,
I'm
a
student
myself.
I've
been
studying
for
four
years,
and
this
is
always
university,
quite
beautiful.
I
think
so.
If
we
go
back
to
two
years
into
my
studying,
I
kind
of
learned
how
to
write
code,
I
learned
c
c
plus
plus
c
sharp,
but
I
did
not
really
learn
anything
outside
of
that,
so
it
was
kind
of
only
code
based.
A
So
when
I
started
at
luna
we,
my
colleagues
and
I
we
were
discussing-
where
do
you
start?
How?
How
do
I
get
my
first
food
into
this
field?
So
what
we
were
thinking
was
that
to
be
a
good
site,
reliability
engineer,
you
have
to
learn
and
know
how
your
customers
think
and
to
site
reliability
engineers
at
luna.
We
perceive
our
customers
as
the
internal
developers,
so
I
kind
of
had
to
to
know
how
our
developers
think
and
how
they
release
code
to
product
production,
to
be
able
to
save
them.
A
Well
as
a
site,
reliability
engineer,
so
my
first
task
as
an
intern
was
to
create
this
release
manager,
but
which
is
basically
a
go
service.
It's
a
infrastructure
tool,
but
that's
not
so
important,
because
what
I
did
was
I
used
go
the
language
that
our
developers
at
luna
use
to
create
the
service,
so
I
knew
how
they
felt
when
they
were
creating
code,
and
I
learned
how
they
also
was
releasing
software
to
production.
A
A
Maybe
a
one
sentence
comment
on
your
assignment:
that's
not
really
how
it's
like
when
I
was
at
luna
on
or
when
I'm
creating
pull
quests
in
open
source.
You
get
a
lot
of
feedback
and
comment,
and
you
have
to
learn
to
take
that
very
nice
and
take
it
as
conscious,
constructive
feedback,
and
it
obviously
makes
a
lot
of
sense
because
I
had
not
really
been
writing
go
before.
So
it
makes
sense
that
I
get
a
lot
of
comments
on
what
I'm
creating
so.
A
Can
I
see
how
many
of
you
have
contributed
to
a
cncf
project
before
raise
your
hands?
Yeah,
we
got
some.
I
don't
know
20
of
the
audience
nice,
so
I
really
want
to
also
hear
some
of
your
stories
about
their
first
contribution
to
cncf
afterwards,
because
I
will
be
telling
you
about
my
first
contribution
to
acn
safe
project
and
it
was
through
backstage
it's
a
fairly
new
project.
I
would
say
it's.
A
A
So
after
I
had
re
created
this
release,
manager
bot
my
colleagues
and
I
were
discussing
where
to
go
now,
so
a
good
idea.
What
we
thought
was
that
it
was
a
good
idea
to
kind
of
get
me
into
this
open
source
space
so
that
I
would
get
experience
with
open
source
projects
so
that
I
would
be
better
able
to
adapt
since
projects.
A
A
So
I
took
on
the
task
and
I
tried
to
adopt
backstage,
but
I
stumbled
into
a
challenge:
how
do
you
import
private
github
repositories
into
backstage?
I
could
not
figure
this
out,
so
I
kind
of
had
to
talk
and
meet
not
meet
but
chat
with
some
in
the
community
in
backstage.
So
I
had
to
also
figure
out
how
to
connect
with
these
people.
A
A
So
I
wrote
a
message
to
the
community
and
discord
and
asked
them
if
they
could
point
me
in
another
direction
where
to
find
this
kind
of
thing,
where
I
import
github
repositories
into
backstage
and
it
was
not
supported.
So
what
I
thought
was
we're
doomed
there
possible
nothing
that
I
can
do
to
adopt
backstage.
A
Of
course
I
was
wrong
because
I
could
just
like
create
this
feature
myself,
so
that
was
actually
what
I
did.
I
tried
to
hex
together
some
code
written
in
typescript.
I
really
had
no
experience
doing
that
and
trying
to
use
the
react
framework,
and
things
like
that,
so
I
hacked
together
some
code
had
it
had
it
actually
working
and
then
I
wrote
back
to
the
community
who
wanted
it
and
asked
if
they
wanted
me
to
contribute
with
it,
and
they
did
so.
A
Also,
I
think
I
forgot
to
remove
some
console
log
lines,
so
the
maintainers
were
very
friendly
to
remind
me
of
that,
so
they
helped
me
improve
my
pr
so
that
it
could
get
approved,
and
I
was
very
happy
that
I
could
go
now
and
tell
my
colleagues
that
I
could.
We
could
now
finish
the
adoption
of
backstage,
because
I
had
contributed
with
a
pr
to
the
cnc
project
backstage
so
that
we
could
adopt
it.
A
A
A
So
after
I
had
adopted
backstage
my
squad-
and
I
we
were
thinking
about
a
new
cool
feature
for
backstage-
and
it
was
this
kind
of
squad
page
where
our
squads
could
go
and
see
squad
specific
information
like
success
rate,
new
critical
vulnerabilities,
new
releases
to
the
services
that
they
own.
So
it
would
be
like
a
page
that
they
go
to
in
the
morning
when
they
had
get
a
cup
of
coffee
and
they,
then
they
would
sit
there.
And
what's
what
is
the
vibe
of
the
squad
right
now?
A
A
I
think
it
was
how
to
upgrade
the
cubelet
on
a
node,
and
I
found
this
tiny,
tiny
but
annoying
thing
yeah,
it's
pretty
much
just
that
there
was
some
space
prepended
to
some
commands
and
then,
when
you
copy
these
commands
into
your
console,
your
console
would
be
filled
up
with
spaces
unnecessary
spaces.
So
I
wanted
to
create
a
very
small
pr
that
just
kind
of
improved
this
documentation
so
that
I
and
my
fellow
open
source
people
did
not
have
to
experience
this.
A
So
this
was
probably
it's
a
very
small
pr,
but
it
improved
this
very
tiny.
But
small
thing
so
just
goes
to
show
you
that
there
are
other
ways
that
you
can
contribute.
You
can
contribute
to
the
documentation
of
kubernetes
and
other
projects.
You
do
not
have
to
contribute
with
code
in
your
first
contribution
to
open
source
projects,
and
actually
there
is
a
doc
special
interest
group
for
these
kind
of
things.
So,
if
and
that,
I
think
it's
a
very
nice
place
to
go.
A
So
I
wrote
to
the
maintainers
of
linkedin
in
slack
and
they
replied
back
they
that
they
had
not
seen
something
like
this
before.
So
they
wanted
me
to
create
an
issue
or
a
bug
report
describing
this.
So
that's
what
was
what
I
did
so
I'll
just
describe
the
need
and
what
we
were
seeing
and
maybe
a
solution
for
this
and
the
maintainers
wrote
back
that
they
were
very
happy
that
I
contributed
with
this,
because
it
was
actually
a
bug
that
they
did
not
know
of
so
now
they
could
improve
this
so
again.
A
A
So
after
my
internship
I
had
learned
to
adopt
and
to
contribute
to
a
lot
of
different
cnc
projects,
but,
as
I
told
you
in
the
beginning,
there
are
a
lot
of
different
things
happening
at
the
same
time
and
new
projects
coming
up
and
all
projects
evolving.
So
you
kind
of
have
to
continue
to
learn
and
keep
learning
all
of
these
new
things.
A
A
A
A
A
So
I
just
want
to
encourage
you
if
you're
a
student-
and
you
want
to
become
a
site,
reliable
engineer-
that
you
try
to
join
a
community
because
it's
a
very
great
way
to
get
to
know
and
learn
the
processes
around
cncf
projects
so
that
you
are
able
to
efficiently
adopt
these
projects
and
create
a
platform
based
on
them
and
interact
with
the
community.
If
you
stumble
into
issues
when
adopting
these
projects
also
being
a
part
of
the
community
is
also
a
great
way
to
stay
on
top
of
what's
happening.
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
So,
to
sum
up
my
talk,
if
you're
a
student-
and
you
want
to
become
a
side,
reliability
engineer,
I
recommend
that
you
try
an
internship
and
that
you
in
this
internship
engage
in
open
source
and
that
you,
of
course
afterwards
and
in
your
whole
life,
keep
learning,
because
I
think
the
new
and
exciting
things
is
what
makes
it
so
damn
exciting
to
be
a
site.
Reliability,
engineer.
B
A
Yeah,
I
have
engaged
with
them
and
there
also
was
a
kind
of
distributed
systems
course.
But
it
was
not
really
that
great
and
the
teacher
just
like
left
the
university
so
and
it's
very
hard
to
find
people
and
teachers
with
these
skills
because
they
are
so
that
people
in
the
industry
really
wants
to
give
them
a
job.
So
it's
hard
for
the
universities
to
attract
them.