Posts tagged with "bare-metal" | sudops.pl

Day 2: Platform Bootstrap

GitOps foundation, operator catalogs, TLS certificates, and storage networking — everything that turns a fresh OKD cluster into a managed platform.

V Vadzim Dziadziulia
June 24, 2026
18 min read
3 subposts

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OKD 3-Node Cluster: Day 1

Three Dell OptiPlex 5090s, three install attempts, and every failure documented — VIP collisions with the old cluster, NTP that nobody enabled, DNS pointing at the wrong API, and the x509 certificate that revealed it all.

V Vadzim Dziadziulia
May 7, 2026
11 min read

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Validation: Proving the Hardware and Platform

Before buying five nodes, prove the design works on one. Hardware pre-validation via live boot, then OKD Single Node deployment.

V Vadzim Dziadziulia
April 16, 2026
31 min read
2 subposts

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