This post references the QuickStart guide heavily. The Quickstart guide also has some scripts for some of these sections to speed up the deployment process. Wanting to become familiar with the whole deployement process, I elected to skip the scripted Read more…
Deploying Tanzu in my homelab has been something I have been wanting to do for a while, for the longest time however, the effort to get it deployed and figure out the networking components seemed too big an obstacle…..and procrastination. Read more…
Even though the process hasn’t changed much from 7.0, I thought I would post my walkthrough of how I deployed my vSphere Center 8.0 to my home lab on VMware Workstation. After downloading the VCSA ISO, I first mounted the Read more…
Toward the end of December I was able to pass my CKA exam. I wanted to take some time to share some tips which I think will help someone who is preparing CKA exam. Some of these tips will also Read more…
Late last month I was able to pass my Certified Kurbernetes Administrator exam and I thought it might be helpful to share my thoughts and experience about the test. Starting the Exam I chose to take my exam remotely from Read more…
I had posted about this previously in my Kubeadm deployment post, however I wanted to create a separate post for this because I had such a hard time figuring this issue out and I wanted to hopefully create some SEO Read more…
Final Configs In case you missed it, Pt1 is here. In this section we will finish with some prerequisites and configs followed by Kubernetes installation. We will start by installing containerd. There are other runtimes you can use instead of Read more…
I am currently studying to complete my CKA and wanted to deploy Kubernetes at home. Although there are other popular Kubernetes deployments for home such as minikube, K3s, or even MicroK8s, I wanted to deploy the “full” deployment. Naturally I Read more…
Upgrading VCSA is pretty straightforward, however when I recently worked toward upgrading my homelab to 8.0 I came upon a problem I wasn’t expecting. The top section outlines the existing VCSA deployment, and the bottom section defines where the VCSA Read more…
I had a frustrating issue recently where I was creating security groups in NSX, and I noticed that under the IP section of the groups it had more IPs than the one IP assigned to the VM. For the purposes Read more…