Devops on Dimitri Laaraybi

K9s, the Kubernetes tool that will probably replace half your `kubectl` commands

Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Working with Kubernetes from the terminal is powerful… but let’s be honest, it can also become painful very quickly.

At first, everything feels manageable:

kubectl get pods
kubectl logs my-pod
kubectl describe pod my-pod

But once your cluster starts growing, namespaces multiply, deployments scale, and microservices spread everywhere, the amount of commands, flags, and context switching becomes exhausting.

This is exactly where K9s comes in.

In this article, we’ll explore what K9s is, why it became one of the most loved tools in the Kubernetes ecosystem (as its github page shows so…), and how it can dramatically improve your daily developer or DevOps workflow.
Let’s go 🔥

Renewing a Microsoft certification

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

Microsoft certifications are a great way to validate your technical expertise and stay relevant in this fast-moving industry, especially when you’re working with an Azure cloud based enterprise environment, or dotnet based applications.
But certifications don’t last forever.
Most role-based and specialty certifications expire after one year, which means you’ll need to renew them regularly. That’s the case of some of the certifications I earned some years ago especially on Azure and dotnet, and which I actually made blog posts about 😉

Officially Devops Engineer Expert ! 🔥

Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Back in October 2022, Microsoft has launched an Ignite Learn Cloud Skills Challenge .
They challenged you to pass all the learning cloud modules proposed by the challenge.
Once passed, Microsoft gave us a free exam! Knowing that the exams are rather expensive (165 euros as I said in my previous article), it’s a good thing that Microsoft offers challenges that allow you to pass exams without having to pay.