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Building My Kubernetes Homelab with Raspberry Pi 4 - Installing Kubernetes with kubeadm

Jan 5 · 5 min read · If you’re preparing for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam, reading documentation alone isn’t enough. You need a real environment where you can install Kubernetes, break it, debug it, and rebuild it from scratch. That’s exactly why I b...

Building my Kubernetes Homelab with Raspberry Pi 4 - OS Installation and Network Configuration

Jan 1 · 10 min read · Welcome back to my Kubernetes homelab series! In Part 1, I covered the hardware setup for my three-node Raspberry Pi 4 cluster. Now it's time to get my hands dirty with the operating system installation and network configuration. This is where my clu...

Building my Kubernetes Homelab with Raspberry Pi 4 - Hardware Setup

Dec 29, 2025 · 4 min read · If you are a developer or IT professional thinking about tackling the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam, you are not alone. I am on that journey too. Instead of just reading docs and watching videos, I decided to get my hands dirty by bui...

Architecting a Production-Ready Static Website on AWS

Jun 21, 2025 · 7 min read · Introduction The primary task is to deploy a new public-facing website for our marketing department. The site, while containing only static content (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), needed to meet stringent production-grade requirements: global low-latency pe...

Solving Kubernetes Scheduling Challenges with Taints and Tolerations

Apr 16, 2025 · 7 min read · Imagine you've got a bunch of servers in your Kubernetes cluster, some powerful, some with specialized hardware like GPUs, and others just your average machines. Now, you've got these applications, or pods as Kubernetes calls them, that need to run s...