Building Exodus: Why I Needed a Second Kubernetes Platform
Claude R. Hector | beyondthecert.dev | August 2026 The Learning Path The plan was deliberate: Pass CKA (January 2026) — Understand Kubernetes conceptually Kubernetes the Hard Way (March 2026) — Build it from scratch, understand each component and the internals Bare-metal cluster (April 2026) — Operate real infrastructure, not labs After CKA and KTHW, building a homelab cluster made sense. I saw people like Mischa van den Burg building clusters on old hardware as homelabs. That inspired me to try my own approach. ...