/tags/home-lab/ Recent content in Home-Lab on Tyler Stapler's Personal Website Hugo en-us Copyright &#169; by Tyler Stapler /blog/kubernetes_with_kubespray/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/kubernetes_with_kubespray/ <p><a href="https://kubernetes.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Kubernetes</a> is a highly modular container platform open sourced by Google. Google modeled Kubernetes after <a href="https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub43438" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Borg</a> , the container platform that has powered Google services for over 10 years. My current company, <a href="https://www.workiva.com/careers" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Workiva</a> , now uses Kubernetes to run thousands of microservices on AWS. This blog post will walk through how anyone can run a powerful Kubernetes cluster out of their home.</p> <h2 id="the-dream">The Dream</h2> <p>Workiva evaluated using Kubernetes to power its infrastructure platform in 2017. The team decided against adopting it right away, but the project sparked my interest Kubernetes. Programming projects have always been a way for me to learn new concepts and sharpen my programming skills. In the past I didn&rsquo;t always share these projects with the world. Hosting web apps can be expensive and complicated to manage. Figuring out hosting didn&rsquo;t feel worth the effort for a toy problem. After learning more about Kubernetes, I was inspired to build a cluster which could host my programming projects and other fun software.</p>