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

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

homelab okd kubernetes bare-metal installation
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

homelab okd validation hardware bare-metal