Project Genesis1: I Built a 4-Node Kubernetes Cluster on Bare Metal. Here's What I Learned.
Project Genesis1: I Built a 4-Node Kubernetes Cluster on Bare Metal. Here’s What I Learned. At work, we provision managed Kubernetes clusters. Click a button, get a cluster. Everything abstracted. Everything handled. At home? I built every piece myself. Two control planes. Two workers. GitOps pipeline. Monitoring stack. The blog you’re reading right now? It’s running on this infrastructure. Why build it? To prove to myself I understand what’s underneath the abstraction. To own the gaps instead of hiding them. To build the kind of operational depth that doesn’t come from any exam. This is Project Genesis1. And you’re standing on it. ...