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A while ago I built a small Kubernetes cluster using four Raspberry Pi 4s for local development and experimentation. I then added a private Docker registry so I could build and deploy my own container images locally without depending on Docker Hub. With that setup I could build containers, push images...

In my previous post, I described Building a Kubernetes Raspberry Pi Homelab with K3s. By default, the cluster pulls public images from Docker Hub, which, for personal projects, may be acceptable. But if you want to work on anything more commercially sensitive, then you’ll want to use a private Docker...

As you’ll know if you’ve ever tried to build a reasonably sized microservices application locally, you can run out of system resources quickly. I have an M1 Mac Mini with just 8GB of non-upgradable RAM and, although it’s pretty fast, once I’ve spun up a few services, each with their...