Well, I guess I’m intending on this being a blog (obviously), but also a portfolio on some level. Following the lead of tech YouTubers like Tom Lawrence, Level1Techs, Learn Linux TV, Network Chuck, and so on… honestly, I could be here for a while naming all the great tech YouTubers… anyway, I don’t have a clear focus on what will go here, but that should come soon enough.
What it may look like may start with something like this: I am not developer, coder, programmer. At this point, it’s probably safe to say that’s not for me. Maybe it’s ADHD, maybe other things hold my interest more. Networking, virtualization (especially XCP-ng), and Linux tend to be my things. For several years, I have dabbled with Docker, initially deploying apps with Portainer. This was fine for a long time, but after a while I felt drawn toward rebuilding everything with Docker Compose. Compose files are static and easier to manage, and Portainer and Compose aren’t exactly the best of friends. Portainer wants to eat your compose files and leave nothing on the plate. As I was rebuilding in Compose, Dockge helped quite a bit. Being able to edit the files within the app and start/stop stacks was super useful, but anyone familiar with IDEs might be able to guess where this leads. As I settled on using VS Code to edit these files, I followed Christian Lempa’s advice to just use that to more or less do the things I was doing in Dockge.
Honestly, there’s a lot more going on and I just wanted to tap something out here. Did my first push to a GitHub repo a bit ago. Maybe odd since I’ve used Linux for so long, but maybe not as I’m not a developer. Still, version control is and will be extremely useful as I expand my homelab. This may include devoting one of my mostly unused XCP-ng hosts with 12 vCPUs to Kubernetes. Not sure what flavor or how it will look. Docker, and especially Docker Swarm, falls short for a lot of things that I would like to do, and could see being needed in a business setting. Maybe I’ll write as I go. Maybe I’ll figure out YouTube content. Not sure. That’s all for now!
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