Almost 30 years ago, I met my first love... of Linux, Red Hat v4.1 from a CD in the back of a book. Yes, a real book.
Now I host a 3-node Kubernetes Cluster behind my desk!
The Human Element
I am a USA Hockey Level 4 Youth Hockey Coach
I coach 16U-18U High School Varsity and JV level.
I also play with the Tampa Bay Lightning Warriors, a US Military Veteran's team.
2/28/26 for the Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate Exam (KCNA) Exam
5/31/26 for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Exam
Learning K3s.io in Public https://github.com/toddpillars/homelab
Cloud Certifications - still weighing whether it'll be GCP (Google Cloud Platform) or AWS (Amazon Web Services)
Terraform
1 x Dell Inspiron 15 3558 i3/4GB/480GB
1 x HP ProDesk 600 G3 i5/8GB/256GB
1 x tp-link 8-port 10/100/1000
Ubuntu Server 24.04.3 LTS
OPNSense
MBP 13" i5/8GB/500GB
Fedora 43 Workstation
Lenovo ThinkPad T480 i7/16GB/512GB
Ubuntu 25.10 Desktop
Python
Bash Bash Guide for Beginners by Machetelt Garrels
YAML
JSON
The DevOps Handbook
The Phoenix Project
The Unicorn Project