TL;DR Certifications are not bad; chasing them is. A badge proves you reached the passing mark on one exam on one day. It does not prove you have run the service in production, and the terms attached to every badge say so. The four reasons from the video: certification overload (AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, AI, …

TL;DR Six skills, none of them cloud-specific, all of them used every day: 1) one programming language you can read the documentation of, plus Git and an editor; 2) scripting in bash first and Python second; 3) a CI/CD tool, Jenkins, GitHub Actions or GitLab; 4) automation with Ansible, with bash as the fallback; 5) …