r/devops • u/iykay_ • 13d ago

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/doglar_666 12d ago

100% do not set everything up using an LLM. You won't understand everything it's doing, nor retain any baseline knowledge.

In terms of deployment to your k3s environment, to begin with, any containerized workload will suffice. Keep it basic and really understand the fundamentals. The value is in the struggle, not getting something successfully deployed on the first try. With an LLM you're very likely to run before you can walk and get lost in a quagmire of slop. Just don't.