Well, I’ve brought this site up several times through various incarnations. In setting my goals for the upcoming year, I thought it was time to give it another go.

Given all that 2024 has brought, the challenges I’ve faced and those I foresee, I wanted to take a more active role in determining the direction of my career and life rather than to see where the wind takes me. That being said, in addition to restarting this and being more active with it, I’ve set a bunch of personal and professional goals that I hope will help me get to a better place, so to speak.

The personal goals I’ll keep vague as they focus primarily on fitness and finances. Suffice it to say, If you see me looking fit or offering to cover lunch, I’m making progress. 🙂

Professionally, I’ve set my sights on several certifications that I believe would benefit me in the present and in the future. I started really focusing on Kubernetes a bit toward the middle of last year and ended up getting one of the initial certs, the CKA, or Certified Kubernetes Administrator.

Additionally, due to some work within generative AI, I worked on the AWS Certified AI Practitioner certification.

So, building on those two, I’ve decided pursue four additional Kubernetes-focused certifications and a couple of new AWS certifications.

Assuming I can complete all of the Kubernetes goals, I could get the Kubestronaut title. Plus a jacket. Not much I won’t do for free swag.

Anyway, I’m going to hit the books now…or, the virtual books…or something. Either way, I know I’m two weeks into 2025, but…Happy New Year! I hope it’s a good one for everybody.