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CCIO OCP MiniStack Education & Development Lab

Get Started Ansible Method

Or Get Started Manual Method

What is it?

Intended for both the new hobby sysadmin and experienced DevOps professional.
This set of guides & build tools is aimed at the Single Host Laptop/Desktop/Server Development and Education Paradigm and can be expanded upon once the core fundamentals are understood.

By following these guides you will be able to:

Demostrate the significant potential of reasonably equipped hardware
Improve your understandng and fluency in fitting common commercial software components together
Overcome barriers in consuming automation tools to improve your workflow beyond the burden of menial tasks

Purpose:

Provide a community platform to quickly and seamlessly build high impact education and development environments.

Inspiration:

The original inspiration for this project came from a desire to have meaningful hands on expreince with a platform that represents the leading edge of modern systems engineering at scale. This design serves to solve for the frustrations and blockers encountered after endless hours of testing different virtual network solutions, architectures, and strategies in search of a paradigm that meets a number of criteria included in the following.

Objectives:

Architecture - Must be consistent on:

Client Laptops
Client Desktops
Low cost Home Labs
DevOps Lab Servers
100% Virtual Tenants
Multi-Host Rack Systems
Single Network Interface Devices

Experience - Must be accessible to:

Easy to setup
Logical to comprehend
Easy to manage & maintain
Capable of multi-host overlays
Easy to use behind Wifi connections
Capable of nesting multiple layers of networks
Eliminate external network or infrastructure requirements
Public Services Delivery enablement through low cost public cloud instance

Result - Must demonstrate success in:

Kubernetes
Bare Metal Hosts
LXD / LXC OS Container Runtimes
Physical & Virtual Switching Gear
Docker/Podman Application Container OCI Runtimes
Libvirt / QEMU / KVM Virtual Machine Environments

kubernautics/openshift