My CKS experience

It was about time… TL;DR A couple of months ago I’ve taken the CKS exam last week and I have passed it. It was about time to make a post about it which can be helpful to others. After studying for some weeks of studying (in fact, I scheduled the exam a week before the exam was expiring) and two attempts, I got the pass, the first was just to be safe as it was going to expire but the second one, let me 2 additional weeks to nail a couple of things....

June 1, 2023 · 4 min · itgaiden

My CKAD experience

Another Kubernetes exam: CKAD TL;DR I passed the CKAD exam a couple of weeks ago. As I already expected, it was easier than the CKA. Most of the resources to be used are the same than the CKA. How much do I study for this one? Well, I already have experience with Kubernetes, took the CKA 3 weeks ago so I just took twice the killer.sh test and It was enough but your mileage may vary....

March 11, 2022 · 4 min · itgaiden

My CKA experience

It was about time… TL;DR Last week I’ve taken the CKA exam last week and I have passed it! You can read the rest of the post for more insights and resources. I have been studying for 2-3 weeks but I wanted to share what I have used to study although I already have experience with Kubernetes so your mileage may vary. Anyway, I really like the practice exams as they really test you but practice and understand things instead of memorizing questions from a test....

February 14, 2022 · 5 min · itgaiden

Kubernetes the hard way but on-prem - part 1 (Discontinued)

DISCLAIMER I decided to not continue with this due to the huge implications that will be to redo everything not in the cloud. Basically, a lot of time should be invested and I miscalculated it by too much. Therefore, this will be probably the first and only post about these series. Context In order to practice for the CKA exam, it is recommended to perform the famous Kubernetes The Hard Way by Kelsey Hightower....

August 12, 2021 · 4 min · itgaiden

Finishing a Computer Engineering degree with DevOps stuff

It’s been more than one month since I published something here but I’ve been changing quite a lot my focus learning and I changed now from CCNA to DevOps things. TL;DR I will be building an automated CI/CD pipeline for my final assignment focusing on tools installed and configured on-premise although there will be cloud services like the front-end. Also, I forgot to mention that last month I started the last semester of my Computer Engineering degree that I started back in 2014 (oh my!...

October 19, 2020 · 4 min · itgaiden

Kubernetes the hard way but on-prem - part 2

Context Let’s continue with the guide, in this part 2. This is based in: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way/blob/master/docs/03-compute-resources.md Kubernetes Controllers We will be using the following CIDR 192.168.1.0/24 for node within the cluster: Somred1: 192.168.1.50/24 Somred2: 192.168.1.51/24 Somred3: 192.168.1.52/24 Kubernetes Workers This nodes will act as the Kubernetes workers nodes which will host the pods, we need to have 2 NICs for each node. One NIC will be the one used before to communicate with the other nodes: 192....

1 min · itgaiden