Eclipse Che / OpenShift Dev Spaces - Podman With Fuse Overlay
In this post, I am going to show you how to enable faster podman builds in Eclipse Che / OpenShift Dev Spaces by enabling support for /dev/fuse in your works...
Welcome to my Blog and Kubernetes Playground
This site is dedicated to sharing the work that I do in my home lab. I am a huge fan of cloud native application delivery on Kubernetes based platforms. I specifically focus on OpenShift Container Platform, and its subscription free (community supported) sibling, OKD.
The projects that I present here are intended to reflect a “close to real-world” environment. The result is a more complicated setup than you will find in other tutorials, but the trade off is that your lab environment will resemble what you find in most corporate IT environments. I try to focus on what my brother-in-law commonly calls the “ilities” of IT; security, reliability, flexibility, availability, etc…
The anchor of this site is my OpenShift Home Lab setup instructions.
Building a Portable Kubernetes Home Lab with OpenShift - OKD4
The links in the left hand navigation, (or drop down menu on mobile), will take you to specific tutorials for building or adding capabilities to your home lab.
Recent posts
Try To Pull Yourself Up By Your Bootstraps - Without Falling Over…
Single Node OpenShift…
OpenShift - Your New Favorite IDE
Think about this for a moment. If you were handed a brand new laptop tomorrow, how long would it take you to get it fully set up for application development...
From Single Node to Multi-Node - Building a Resilient OpenShift Home Lab
In this post, we are going to tear down the single node cluster that we built last time and replace it with a three node cluster. The single node cluster is...
Back To Where It All Started - Let’s Build an OpenShift Home Lab
Happy 2023! I hope that your year is starting out on a positive trajectory. Yes, I realize that it’s already March… but, Happy New Year regardless.
Quarkus for Architects who Sometimes Write Code - Being Persistent - Part 03
Note: This is part three of a three part post. In this post we’ll create a Quarkus micro-service to store and retrieve data with Cassandra and Stargate.
Quarkus for Architects who Sometimes Write Code - Being Persistent - Part 02
Note: This is part two of a three part post. In this post we’ll use Postman to interact with the Cassandra instance that we created in the first post.
Quarkus for Architects who Sometimes Write Code - Being Persistent - Part 01
Note: This is part one of a three part post. In this post we’re going to set up a Cassandra persistence engine on OpenShift. We’ll be using Stargate as the...
Quarkus for Architects who Sometimes Write Code - It’s OK To Be Reactive
Note: This is the third post in a series. While the code in this post stands alone, I am using some tooling introduced in earlier posts:
Quarkus for Architects who Sometimes Write Code - API Server & Client
This is the second post in a series that I started to take you on a journey with me writing Quarkus applications with cloud native runtimes.
Quarkus for Architects who Sometimes Write Code - Introduction
So… I have written a few applications over the course of my career in IT. But, I’ve never been a “real” Software Engineer. That is to say, I’ve never bee...
Let’s Set Up Some Tools for Developing Micro-Services - On A Raspberry Pi!
If you are going to be doing any micro-services development in your Kubernetes Home Lab, there are some useful tools that you are going to need. In this pos...
It’s Been a While - A Lot Has Changed
Well… I missed all of April. But I have not been idle.
Happy Pi Day!!! && Let’s Learn OpenShift Pipelines (Tekton)
So… It’s Pi day… I would be remiss if I did not give you a link to all of my Raspberry Pi pages…
What Is 3 X 3 + 1? or… I needed a new CLI…
I’ve mentioned a couple of times that this year I am starting a project to build a cloud native application that is deployed across multiple regions.
Let It SNO!
So… I planned this title a while back. How ironic that, as I sit here, we are expecting as much as a of foot of real snow…
Happy New Year!
Welcome to 2022…
Time for some Metal!!! Good Bye Hypervisor…
Let’s ditch the hypervisor and put our lab right on the metal!
Let’s Code! …and build, and deploy!
This is what it’s all about my friends! Deploying running code.
Where Did September Go?!
OK… So, a little over a month ago I showed you how to add the Tekton-OpenShift Pipelines Operator to your lab, and then promised to give you some code to de...
We’re Almost Ready to Write Some Code… But First - Tekton!
Today, I am going to show you how to install the OpenShift Pipelines operator in your disconnected cluster.
And Now For Something Slightly Different… CodeReady Containers
CodeReady Containers is the successor to MiniShift, which was itself derived from MiniKube. It’s purpose is to enable an OpenShift 4 based development enviro...
It’s time for Tea - Gitea
Every software delivery shop needs a source code management system. Git is the defacto standard these days for SCM, and there are a lot of server options ou...
Let’s Add Some Storage to Our Cluster
In this week’s post, I am going to show you how to add the Rook Operator for Ceph Storage to your cluster.
Growing Your Kube Workforce
The Struggles of a Growing Business
Let’s build an OpenShift Home Lab!
Greetings, and Welcome to my Kube world