Justin Garrison

We will discuss Kelsey's thoughts on what is happening with Cloud Native and the Cloud. Find out what has been interesting in public and private clouds and ask your questions.

Just because Kubernetes is cloud native doesn’t mean you can’t run it on-prem, but why is it so hard in 2024? There are lots of options but all of them have trade-offs. Justin has been building on-prem clusters for 8 years and will help you figure out if you need a project or a product, CAPI or PXE, and cloud-init or config management.

Kubernetes is just for big server farms, no? No! You can run Kubernetes in your own home or small office, and build your own on-prem bare-metal cluster. Join some community folks who have done so to discuss how to do this, and share your own experiences with running small, on-prem clusters.

Config management is a magical tool until it can't do the thing you need. Justin will explore some of the things you can't do and poor design decisions of Puppet, Chef, Ansible, and Salt.