Topic: Homelab - Page 2

This post deals with how to I managed to format NetApp drives so that they can be used in a normal context, outside of NetApp hardware.

The next step in building a home data center: adding a server to handle storage. For this purpose I picked up a 36 HDD bay, 4 unit rack-mount Isilon / EMC X400 chassis with a Supermicro X8 series motherboard. Fun ensues getting this part of the project working!!

After completing my previous project of building a Kubernetes cluster using old computers, I decided to take the next logical step and use real data center hardware to build a Kubernetes cluster at home within a budget of $3000. This is the first of a series of posts describing the build.

Prometheus is fantastic for drilling down into whats happening with the resources within your cluster.

Jenkins is an absolute prime candidate for running on a non-production Kubernetes cluster built on old, unused hardware.

Exposing services to outside the Kubernetes cluster sounds difficult, but its easier than you might expect.

Helm works like a package manager for Kubernetes and allows you to easily deploy and remove

After building a k8s cluster in the first post, it's time to add persistance for services to use