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Building a Multi-GPU Workstation for My Home Lab

After running a power-efficient home lab setup for quite some time, I recently decided it was time for an upgrade. My existing machines were chosen primarily for their small form factors and energy efficiency, but new requirements—particularly the need for GPU acceleration—meant it was time to think bigger. Here’s how I approached building a more powerful workstation while maintaining a practical balance of performance, cost and expandability.

Installing Single Node OKD on a KVM virtual machine

Spring has finally arrived and with it came the perfect opportunity for some home lab maintenance. After running my home lab OKD instance reliably for over 2 years, I recently performed a reinstall and decided to document the entire process. Since the previous setup served me well, I wanted to capture all the detailed steps involved in getting a fresh OKD environment up and running on a KVM virtual machine.

Running a Fedora CoreOS OpenStack instance

Fedora CoreOS is a minimal operating system used for running containerized workloads that I’ve been wanting to experiment with for some time. Since my test infra is OpenStack based I’ll document below how to create a Fedora CoreOS OpenStack instance.

Running containers with Podman

In this post I’ll document how to build and run containers with Podman. Podman is a tool which allows you managing OCI containers without the need for a daemon. It aims to provide parity with the docker cli options making it easy for users to transition to using this new tool. You can read more about the Podman motivation in this detailed article.

Configuring users with admin role in OpenShift

This is a quick post documenting the commands required for setting up Openshift users with the admin role: