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SUMMARY:Enterprise Kubernetes at Home: A Homelabber's Guide to OKD - Thoma
 s Cameron
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DESCRIPTION:Running enterprise-grade Kubernetes platforms like OpenShift p
 rovides invaluable career skills\, but translating that architecture into 
 a home or departmental lab can feel like shoving a square peg into a round
  hole. Datacenter luxuries like hardware load balancers\, enterprise stora
 ge arrays\, and endless pools of RAM don't exist under your desk. Thankful
 ly\, the upstream OKD project brings that exact same cloud-native power to
  your local hardware—if you know how to navigate the infrastructure hurd
 les.\n\nThis presentation is a practical survival guide for successfully d
 eploying OKD in resource-constrained environments. We will map out the arc
 hitectural prerequisites that trip up most deployments\, focusing heavily 
 on configuring wildcard DNS subdomains and strict reverse DNS (PTR) record
 s for node discovery. We will look at strategies for handling cluster ingr
 ess using lightweight open-source load balancers like HAProxy\, and contra
 st persistent storage methods\, comparing single-node local storage layout
  against multi-node NFS shared exports. Attendees will leave with a clear
 \, realistic blueprint for spinning up a functional OKD cluster without me
 lting their hardware or their power budget.\n\nKey Takeaways:\n- Sizing an
 d Footprint: Navigating the trade-offs between traditional High Availabili
 ty topologies\, hyper-converged virtualized clusters\, and Single Node OKD
  (SNO).\n- The Networking Triad: Step-by-step logic for implementing the A
 PI load balancer\, configuring wildcard application routes\, and getting P
 TR records right.\n- Storage Demystified: Configuring robust persistent vo
 lume backing using standard local LVM provisions or shared NFS storage map
 pings on Fedora CoreOS nodes.
LOCATION:Lil Tex
URL:https://pretalx.com/txlf2026/talk/FQTX9Y/
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