27 Apr 2025
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.
08 Mar 2025
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.
20 Jul 2020
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.
08 Feb 2019
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.
18 Jan 2019
This is a quick post documenting the commands required for setting up Openshift users with the admin role: