In orbit around planet CKA

Invertedlight/ July 18, 2026/ DevOps, Home-Lab, Kubernetes

Made it through the Udemy CKA course today and even managed to muddle through all the Lab Tests. Quite the feeling of accomplishment getting to the end. Now the real work starts reviewing all of the Labs to test my recall rate and polish up on the concepts I stumbled over along the path to completion. Then on to KillerShell tests

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Vagrant Cluster Deployment Success

Invertedlight/ July 14, 2026/ DevOps, Home-Lab, Kubernetes, Uncategorized

Today my Kubernetes journey reached a milestone. All the concepts and yaml files clicked into place into a deployable Kubernetes cluster setup. Quite a blast to see it all working together. Sure it was a guided journey, but now I have a template to explore and expand upon. Using Vagrant to deploy the cluster was slick. Definitely going to dig

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Cluster Upgrade Today

Invertedlight/ July 6, 2026/ DevOps, Home-Lab, Kubernetes, Linux Life, Uncategorized

After reviewing the Udemy course for CKA section 6 – Cluster Upgrade, today was busy.I finally get the upgrade sequence.1. Follow the Documentation!2. Follow your notes!3. Work the Lab!Steps:Repeat for each node– Update repository– Update kubeadm– Drain the node you are working on– Update kubelet– Update kubectl (if on that node as well)– Restart the kubelet process– Uncordon the node–

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