Get to know Dmitri
This week’s Kubestronaut in Orbit, Dmitri Telinov, a Senior DevOps Engineer in Chișinău, Moldova, is a curious and avid learner and considered himself a complete beginner in Kubernetes only 3 years ago. When he’s not working, he likes to follow tutorials and courses to increase his DevOps knowledge.
If you’d like to be a Kubestronaut like Dmitri, get more details on the CNCF Kubestronaut page.
When did you get started with Kubernetes and/or cloud-native? What was your first project?
I first learned about Kubernetes in 2017 and started to use it extensively at work in 2019.
What are the primary CNCF projects you work on or use today? What projects have you enjoyed the most in your career?
How have the certs or CNCF helped you in your career?
I learned a lot during preparation for certification exams. This preparation includes also practical experience that helped me to advance in my projects at work
What are some other books/sites/courses you recommend for people who want to work with k8s?
I mostly used these learning platforms: Kodekloud, O’Reilly and Packt publishing where I found some good courses.
What do you do in your free time?
I enjoy freelancing, and learning and sharing knowledge on my daily blog, https://www.qwerty.md/
What would you tell someone who is just starting their K8s certification journey? Any tips or tricks?
Start with simple and hands-on examples. My biggest mistake was that I started with Kubernetes the Hard Way and it took some time to understand things.
Today the Cloud native ecosystem is way more than Kubernetes. Do you plan to get other cloud native certifications from the CNCF ?
I plan to finish more Linux certifications – for example, I want to get the Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS) and start to learn NodeJS and prepare certification in that as well.