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After 4 years of daily driving Arch Linux, I’m leaving.
Not for the reasons you’d expect. I’m applying DevOps principles to my personal workflow: treating my workstations like Kubernetes clusters. Watch my latest video right here to find out more: https://youtu.be/gxWgceGx5Os
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Transcript: (00:00) After 4 years of daily driving Arch Linux, I'm leaving. And you may think I'm leaving because Arch Linux breaks often or because it's unstable. But the reason why I'm leaving is actually very different. I'm going to be running my workflow like a Kubernetes cluster. I want a workflow where I can throw my laptop in the sea and restore it to a new machine in 10 minutes. (00:21) And in this video, I'll explain how I'm going to build the workflow of my dreams and why I have to leave Arch to do this. I will teach you about modern software deployment practices and how you can apply them to your own setup as well. So, let's dive in. I'll start by explaining why I'm actually doing this. You see, CubeCraft, my business, is actually going places. (00:42) It is growing fast and we're doing really well. So, me and my brother, who is my co-founder, we actually decided to rent an office space where we can build an even more professional studio to create YouTube videos and to collaborate together. So, this is really exciting, but this also means that my trusted little setup here is going to be moving elsewhere and that I'm going to be working from several places now. (01:06) So, I need my workflow to be available here at home when I'm in the office, but also when I'm traveling around Europe in my camper van because I have that remote location freedom right now as a business owner. So, my workflow needs to be optimized for this. And obviously when you set up a new office and a new studio, you also need to buy new hardware. (01:27) And this has been a bit of a process where me and my brother were thinking, what are we going to get? My brother is more of a computer normie, whereas I preferably want to run everything on Linux. So I decided to go for framework. Framework is a company that creates laptops, which is completely aligned with my values and what I like to see. (01:48) So you configure once, upgrade whenever. It's a modular system and you just create your laptop and you can replace your parts. You have the right to repair. You have control over your system. And this is completely up my street. I love this. I'm tired of paying $2,000 for one terabyte of storage on a MacBook.
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So you have a home lab. Now what?
One of the questions I get often is: so I built my home lab. What do I do with it? And it’s one of my favorite questions to answer. Every week I host several live Q&A calls in KubeCraft. And this question comes up regularly. During these mentorship sessions, I teach my students a process that you won't find anywhere else. So instead of just giving you a list of apps to run, I’ll share my whole thought process so you can decide for yourself. I think that will serve you better than a list of apps. But before we jump in, I should let you know that I'm only accepting 10 new students in December. If you want to get direct mentorship from me, CLICK HERE to claim your spot. I'll help you land a remote, 6-figure DevOps job so you can live the life of your dreams. What is a home lab anyway? First of all, let’s think about what a home lab is. One big misconception people have is that home labs need to be big server racks with thousands of dollars of equipment. They think you need to run 5 node Kubernetes clusters before you can even call it a home lab. This is completely false. My home lab started with a ThinkPad T430. An old laptop that was gathering dust in a closet. I installed Linux on there, and ran Linkding in a Docker container. I was so proud. I had my own little application that I could run. I was self-hosting. And it all started from there. Solve Problems You Already Have When I get the question, “what should I run?”, my first reaction is always to solve problems you already have in your life. The reason why I ended up self-hosting Linkding was because I was switching browsers so often. I would sometimes have three different browsers running. One on my phone, one on my laptop, and one on my main workstation. I needed a place to store my bookmarks that was independent of the browser. And after using Raindrop for a while, I somehow discovered Linkding. I’ve been using it for over 3 years now.
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Community service (?)
After watching @Mischa van den Burg newest video about Windows, I'm honestly thinking about reaching out to friends and family to offer to install Linux for them 😄 Everybody wins, right? Well, except Windows 🤦♀️ More practice for me 😁 Should I ask around? 👇
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You would b emaking the world a better place for sure!
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I'm leaving Arch Linux. Here's why:
After 4 years of daily driving Arch Linux, I’m leaving. You may think I’m leaving because Arch Linux breaks often. Or because it’s unstable. But the reason why I’m leaving is actually very different. I’m going to be running my workflow like a Kubernetes cluster. I want a workflow where I can throw my laptop in the sea and restore it on a new machine in 10 minutes. And in this newsletter I’ll explain how I’m going to build the workflow of my dreams, and why I have to leave Arch to do this. I will teach you about modern software deployment practices and how you can apply them to your own setup as well. Let’s dive in. Backups What would happen if your main laptop or workstation would die right now? Would you panic? Do you have any backups of your most important files? How fast could you rebuild your system exactly as it was? Could you do it under an hour? Most people, even senior DevOps engineers, would not have any structured backups of their machine, and they would need at least a day to rebuild their computer. I’m doing something most people don’t do. I’m applying the same principles we use for managing server infrastructure to my personal computer. Infrastructure as Code. Immutable systems. Containerization. Stateless workstations. These concepts come from managing Kubernetes clusters and cloud infrastructure. But what if you applied them to your laptop? That’s what I’m testing over the next few months. Why I’m Doing This: KubeCraft is going places. We’ve rented an office space so me and my brother can work together. I need my work environment available on multiple machines now - one at home, one at the office, and my travel laptop for when I’m working from my camper van across Europe. I’ve been organizing things with that goal in mind, but I’ve never actually tested whether it works. Over the next 2 months, I’m going to document building what I’m calling a stateless workstation. It’s the same concept as stateless services in Kubernetes - nothing important lives only on the machine itself.
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Live Q&A Recap - 1 hour of free career mentoring!
A few weeks ago we did a live Q&A here in the community. Here's the recording of that session. Go and watch it here right now: https://youtu.be/wT562m2qLFU P.S. there are still a few spots left for the November cohort in KubeCraft. CLICK HERE if you want a remote job and make $171K a year
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