Home-Lab for experimentation and learning a DevOps Playground for CI/CD
- Why a Home-Lab - Doing a DevOps role requires a lot of expertise in CI / CD plus Linux cli proficiency, and hardware server knowledge. Building out a Home-Lab gives you experience in all of the areas one needs to be proficient in a production environment, You get to experiment and build and tear down servers, clusters, deployment manifests, and write shell scripts without
Read More - Another Server On-Line - Making progress on setting up the Home-Lab servers.Configured the new mini PC with Ubuntu Server, cloned over my git repository setup files and tools. Two more old Mac Book Pros to configure and get running on Linux and a spare iMac.At that point I can start deploying multiple Kurbernetes nodes and try out different deployment scenarios. Ran through a flawless
Read More - CKA or Bust - Started the Udemy CKA course (instructor: Mumshad Mannambeth).The instruction modules are fairly short and focused on single task / elements.They are very well put together and well worth the cost in my humble opinion.Each section provides a good concept foundation that augments what I’ve learned in the KubeCraft course on Kubernetes. The lab modules seem easy to solve (so far),
Read More - Home-Lab Progress - Making progress on setting up the Home-Lab servers. Configured the new mini PC with Ubuntu Server, cloned over my git repository setup files and tools. Ran through a flawless Docker containerd installation. It sure pays to have good notes. Two more old Mac Book Pros to configure and get running on Linux and a spare iMac. At that point I
Read More - Building a Home-Lab - Building up my home-lab has been a great learning experience. Starting with a bare metal install of Arch Linux one really learns the linux fundamentals and the ins and outs of manipulating raw device resources. I’ll be posting more detailed review of the interesting technical wins and struggles I’ve encountered along the way. Currently I’m in the process of building
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