https://robertmendal.dev/tags/small-board-computing/ Recent content in Small Board Computing on Robert Mendal Hugo -- gohugo.io en © 2026 Robert Mendal Wed, 26 Jun 2024 11:38:13 -0400 https://robertmendal.dev/post/home-k8s-env/ Wed, 26 Jun 2024 11:38:13 -0400 https://robertmendal.dev/post/home-k8s-env/ <h2 class="relative group">Preface <div id="preface" class="anchor"></div> <span class="absolute top-0 w-6 transition-opacity opacity-0 -start-6 not-prose group-hover:opacity-100 select-none"> <a class="text-primary-300 dark:text-neutral-700 !no-underline" href="#preface" aria-label="Anchor">#</a> </span> </h2> <p>Every organization I&rsquo;ve worked for since 2017 has used Kubernetes. Granted, back in 2017, it was still a very new technology that didn’t benefit from the open-source ecosystem that it now does, and things were more challenging to do with it in general.</p> <p>My professional experience with Kubernetes began with reading documentation and trying things locally or in AWS EKS. Local environments like Kind and k3s were new but suffered from severe resource limitations. Despite the improvement in laptop specs over the years, trying to do meaningful local development work, testing, or learning remains a significant challenge due to the complexity of said environments and the cost of managed options like EKS, GKE, and AKS.</p>