I just got myself some mini PC’s and want to set up a k8s lab to strengthen my skills, I was laid off 8mo ago and haven’t been able to find a new job.

I want to automate everything I can while building this and was just looking for input on how people might recommend I do it.

I was thinking of using pxeboot to install Debian using preseed to automate the installation.

Then maybe install k8s on VMs on the servers, but I’m not sure if I should do that or just keep it on the hosts themselves. They’re decently specced. AMD Ryzen 3 2200 CPUs with 24gb ram and an SSD/NVME combo.

So, any advice for where I should start or tips/tricks?

  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    In the real world, you’re more likely to see multiple vms on each server and each vm running a k8s node. So I’d go with that setup.

    Once you have that going, play with clustering services within k8s: Kafka, redis, etcd, postgres.