>>106165456 (OP)bros I have a question/life scenario I was going to throw in /sqt/, but it seems sort of relevant to this thread actually.
I am unemployed and looking for a job. My niche resume and the current job market seems to have pigeonholed me into only being able to get interviews for ELK stack development. The problem with that is I don't know shit about the ELK stack, or all these data pipelines and shit that interconnect with it or whatever the fuck. I mean I'm not technologically retarded, I use VMs and stuff, but once you add containers and cloud and APIs and shit, I'm lost. And then I read the job descriptions and they're like oh also lol Grafana, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, IaC, clusters, AWS integration, Helm, Ansible, and I want to fucking cry. ELK ended up on my resume pretty much by accident, but I guess everything else I've ever done and am actually good at is irrelevant in the current job market.
So I'm thinking about going ahead and actually learning all this ELK stuff. But I hardly even know what to ask to get started. I think, to get anything relevant out of it, I need a whole computer environment with previously mentioned Kubernetes, Docker, containers, whatever. I just have a strong desktop and some ChinkPads. Should I get a server or some cheap miniPCs or do it all in the cloud or uhh...? Give up maybe?
pls halp