NOMAD HOMELAB
In my ongoing quest to become a mad scientist, I realized I had a bunch of compute sitting around my home, largely unused. I could try to choose what runs on which machine and track and manage it all… So instead, I embarked on a quest to make it all part of one big Nomad cluster at home. The Nomad server is a single qemu VM running on my Synology NAS system, which is also on a UPS to keep it running until my generator kicks on.
INSTALLING HASHICORP NOMAD CLIENT ON A MAC - PERSISTENT
I’ve been setting up Hashicorp Nomad as my scheduler for my homelab, which includes numerous Raspberry Pis, a few Linux VMs, an Ubuntu laptop, and several Macs. Getting the server set up was fairly straightforward - I’m taking an iterative approach with a single bootstrapped server for now - but I had trouble finding much in the way of setting up persistent clients. This blog is me leaving breadcrumbs for my future self and any other folks who want to take advantage of the power of Hashicorp Nomad clients on Macs in their own homelabs.
THE CLOUD RESUME CHALLENGE - AWS
The Challenge Ever since Forrest Brazeal released his original Cloud Resume Challenge, I’ve been curious to take it for a spin. As a former educator who pivoted into a career in technology, with the vast majority of it in cloud, it hit all the sweet spots for me. Clear, concise, project-based, relevant, and challenging enough to demonstrate all the competencies that a cloud engineer would need to be successful. I finally sat down to do the challenge myself.