I work as a platform engineer and manage kubernetes clusters on GKE all day, but have never had one at home that I could really tinker with at the hardware level and blow up. I had been thinking about building one with Raspberry Pis, but that’s when I came across these old XP/Vista era beauties out on the curb looking for a new life.
I haven’t decided how I’m going to do this yet. OpenShift? Rancher? Can I build it on bare metal? Or should I use a virtualization layer like Proxmox? What would you do?
I thought this might be a great place to document the process, so check back in if you want to see how the project progresses.