I really like NetBox and call myself a NetBox noob too dangerous in many places. I’m currently working on my first NetBox plugin for OpenNMS. I run a mix of workloads on classic virtual machines and also in Kubernetes with containers. The Plugin - NetBox - Kubernetes situation hit me quickly. I’m in the lucky situation of having known Peter Eckel for a very long time. He is the maintainer of the NetBox DNS Plugin and his valuable advice to me was:
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In my last weeks, I had to work with deployments of OpenNMS with Kubernetes. Instead of spending dollars on cloud providers for my lab, I’ve bought a beefy cheap box for my home network for less than 1.500,-€ about a year ago. It saved me probably already more than I would have spent on similar resources in the cloud for my playgrounds. It has an Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-10880H CPU, 64 GB RAM, and 2 TB SSD which has enough steam to run VMware ESXi on it. The main goal for this lab is, to have something you can quickly ditch into the bin and rebuild from scratch without worrying, and at the beginning of something new, you’ll break it a lot for sure :)
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I work from home for over 6 years now and especially when you like networking, want to get stuff up and running and breaking it - you start looking around :) You’ve heard about k8s, k{0,3}s or Microk8s but you don’t want to use it to run your private blog and you find yourself in a spot where the benefits running stuff in containers justify the pain - this article might be something for you :)
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