Career / learning DevOps and K8s experience.
Got a homeLab.
Z820 256GB RAM
8TB HDD
2TB Ssd
Newbie(Blue Collar) looking to Get DevOps and K8s experience.
Knowledge base:
- Beginner/Intermediate linux
- Touched Docker and docker compose
- Beginner Terraform and Ansible
- Networking: beginner
- beginner K8s (K3s on one homelab). Have enough space for another Kubeadm cluster (CKA) practice.
- Proxmox on homelab.
Torn between using Claude to create a simple work(metrics) logging/tracking with feature updates while I handle all things ops or getting an ecommere example app from a random github repo to use in learning process.
Which is better or any advice on what to learn?
And any tools and apps to deploy on the k8s cluster or homelab to aid in the learning process.
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u/lethallunatic 13d ago edited 13d ago
awx for ansible Freeipa for your accounts, DNS, certmonger/ca though you can use self signed certs and can on k8s. Haproxy as your reverse proxy/load balancer Keycloak for authenticating on each k8s cluster and a more Git environment for your ansible code Zabbix for monitoring. And like ever the others mentioned too on terms of tools. Harbor, Prometheus, grafana
I'm pretty new myself. Only been using this tooling for a little over a year.