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Life on a Phone

Life on a Phone

We spend too much time on our phones. Life is not in our phones. We are missing the one chance at a lifetime, to be fed advertisements for profit.

  • Kevin Jones
    Kevin Jones
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MicroK8s as One Way to Learn Kubernetes
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MicroK8s as One Way to Learn Kubernetes

I had a friend reach out that is using a new 8G Raspberry Pi to learn some new technologies. Raspberry Pis are an excellent platform to geek out with and Kubernetes is a

  • Kevin Jones
    Kevin Jones
9 min read
Installing the GPU Operator on OpenShift 4.6
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Installing the GPU Operator on OpenShift 4.6

In my last article, I showed how to deploy OpenShift 4.6 on top of OpenStack with GPU worker nodes. In this article, I will deploy the NVIDIA GPU Operator onto the OpenShift

  • Kevin Jones
    Kevin Jones
9 min read
OpenShift 4.6 on OpenStack with GPU Workers
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OpenShift 4.6 on OpenStack with GPU Workers

With my recent home lab OpenStack cloud, I wanted to test out OpenShift deployment with GPU worker nodes.You need a system that can run the OpenShift install command. This can be a

  • Kevin Jones
    Kevin Jones
6 min read
Enabling Virtual TPM in OpenStack Victoria
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Enabling Virtual TPM in OpenStack Victoria

Recently I have been working on customizing my OpenStack lab deployment to allow for some testing use cases.Some of these use cases require a TPM be available in the test system. I

  • Kevin Jones
    Kevin Jones
12 min read
PCI Passthrough of NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 in OpenStack Victoria
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PCI Passthrough of NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 in OpenStack Victoria

Recently, I've been looking for an inexpensive way to test out GPU utilization for compute in my home lab. I want to be able to test this on bare metal, in VMs and

  • Kevin Jones
    Kevin Jones
5 min read
Deploying RDO OpenStack in a Cohesive Manner. Part 3: Overcloud Post Configuration and Validation
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Deploying RDO OpenStack in a Cohesive Manner. Part 3: Overcloud Post Configuration and Validation

Part 1 and Part 2 of this series walked through deploying OpenStack with Tripleo in my home lab. I originally intended to only have 2 parts. However, they were so long, I thought

  • Kevin Jones
    Kevin Jones
16 min read
Deploying RDO OpenStack in a Cohesive Manner. Part 2: Overcloud Deployment
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Deploying RDO OpenStack in a Cohesive Manner. Part 2: Overcloud Deployment

In Part 1, I went through deploying the undercloud and getting the physical overcloud nodes inspected, cleaned and ready for deployment.In this article, I will finish our OpenStack deployment using TripleO. At

  • Kevin Jones
    Kevin Jones
18 min read
Deploying RDO OpenStack in a Cohesive Manner. Part 1: Undercloud Deployment and Node Preparation
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Deploying RDO OpenStack in a Cohesive Manner. Part 1: Undercloud Deployment and Node Preparation

It has always bugged me that the TripleO  (which is the preferred installer for RDO and Red Hat OpenStack Platform) documentation is so fragmented. If you don't know TripleO, it is very difficult

  • Kevin Jones
    Kevin Jones
13 min read
Troubleshooting OpenShift Container Storage 4.x
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Troubleshooting OpenShift Container Storage 4.x

Recently I went to check on my OpenShift 4 bare metal lab. I noticed that my OpenShift Container Storage (OCS) 4 cluster was in error state. OCS 4 is based on Red Hat

  • Kevin Jones
    Kevin Jones
2 min read
Installing OpenShift 4 Code Read Containers on a MacBook Pro
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Installing OpenShift 4 Code Read Containers on a MacBook Pro

There is a ton of interest in learning Kubernetes and Red Hat's distribution of Kubernetes, OpenShift. One of the ways Red Hat makes available to experience OpenShift 4 is via Code Ready Containers

  • Kevin Jones
    Kevin Jones
6 min read
OpenShift 4.3 Bare Metal Lab
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OpenShift 4.3 Bare Metal Lab

Quite a few years back, we started a project called Shadowbox (haha, I did not even know this YouTube video existed). Shadowbox is a home-built, portable lab environment. Being our first prototype, the

  • Kevin Jones
    Kevin Jones
12 min read
OpenShift 4.2 on Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13
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OpenShift 4.2 on Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13

While preparing for a couple recent presentations, I wanted to experiment with the automated installation of OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) 4.2 on top of an existing Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) 13

  • Kevin Jones
    Kevin Jones
10 min read
Setup Containerized Data Importer (CDI) for Kubevirt
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Setup Containerized Data Importer (CDI) for Kubevirt

There is a service that goes along with Kubevirt to allow us to import virtual machine disk images into persistent volumes (PVs) on our Kubernetes cluster. These PVs can then be used to

  • Kevin Jones
    Kevin Jones
1 min read
Working with Kubevirt Common Templates
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Working with Kubevirt Common Templates

Recently I published a follow on video to my original Introduction to OpenShift Virtualization. Kubevirt gives us the ability to add virtualization to an existing Kubernetes cluster. In the environment shown in the

  • Kevin Jones
    Kevin Jones
2 min read
Cloudera CDH via OpenStack Sahara
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Cloudera CDH via OpenStack Sahara

Recently I published the video below showing a deployment of Cloudera CDH using OpenStack Data Processing (Sahara). In the environment shown in the video, I am running Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 and

  • Kevin Jones
    Kevin Jones
4 min read
Introduction to OpenShift Virtualization
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Introduction to OpenShift Virtualization

Recently I published a video showing a very quick introduction to running virtual machines on OpenShift with KubeVirt. I decided to post all of my steps for configuring KubeVirt and the UI on top of my existing OpenShift cluster. Note that my cluster had bare metal app nodes.

  • Kevin Jones
    Kevin Jones
2 min read
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