Mischa van den Burg

๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜ ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐˜† ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ฏ๐˜‚๐—ถ๐—น๐—ฑ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—ผ๐˜„๐—ป ๐—ž๐˜‚๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ต๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ฏ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜ ๐—ฏ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ธ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฏ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ธ.

Hereโ€™s exactly how I run mine for daily learning and real-world practice.

๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ ๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฝ ๐Ÿญ: ๐—›๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ
Start with an old laptop. 4 GB of RAM minimum.
Add nodes later if you need them.
๐Ÿ’ก Used thin clients work great for extra nodes and cost around 200$.
Avoid surprise cloud bills by running everything local.

โš™๏ธ ๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฝ ๐Ÿฎ: ๐—ฃ๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—บ
Begin with k3s. It is lightweight and simple.
Move to full Kubernetes when you are ready.
Add GitOps with Flux or Argo.
Set up basic monitoring from day one.

๐Ÿ“ฆ ๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฝ ๐Ÿฏ: ๐—”๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€
Deploy one important service first.
Document everything in Git.
Focus on security basics.
Automate small tasks one by one.

๐Ÿ“ˆ ๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฝ ๐Ÿฐ: ๐—ฆ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด
Keep your control plane separate from your worker nodes.
Add redundancy when you need it.
Take proper backups.
Monitor your resource usage closely.

๐Ÿง  ๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฝ ๐Ÿฑ: ๐—Ÿ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด
Break things on purpose.
Practice troubleshooting until it feels natural.
Try new tools and see what works.
Share what you learn, it sticks better.

The key is to start small and expand based on real needs.
Most important of all: use it every day.

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@SamuelAthota

Can you provide a tutorial for setting up homelab , that would be really helpful

1 month ago | 9

@bpevandro

What do you suggest as thin clients? Iโ€™m currently running a cluster in Proxmox with 3 CP/WK Talos nodes, each with 6vCPUs and 16GB RAM. Can you suggest anything with similar specs? Thanks!

1 month ago | 0

@classicrockonly

Iโ€™m an 8 year experience sysadmin mainly with ansible experience. I have a solid chance at a job except they do k8s which I know little of. Think I can cram your course in 3 weeks before my next interview? ๐Ÿ˜…

1 month ago | 0  

@ronaldlokers

If I had a job I would have joined kubecraft, sadly I donโ€™t have sight on a job because of a tumor that I am under treatment for. 98 dollar is to much of a cut in my budget right now. What are good free resources to start learning?

1 month ago | 0  

@VikingDevops

I would join KubeCraft to lvl up my skillset but i can't afford ๐Ÿ˜•Unfortunately searching job for long time yet. Yesterday i've got another feedback with refuse anyway I'm not giving up and trying over and ove

4 weeks ago | 0