The Ultimate Homelab Setup for Crushing Kubernetes Certifications

To try everything Brilliant has to offer—free—for a full 30 days, visit https://brilliant.org/TravisMedia/ . You’ll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription. To help knock out some Kubernetes certifications this year, I've started building out a homelab. In this video, I walk through how I set this up from PiHole to a Cloudflare domain to TLS to app deployments. Join the Travis Media Community - https://www.skool.com/travis-media-community ⏱️ Timestamps ⏱️ 00:00 Intro 01:12 Internet and router 01:22 PiHole 02:18 Raspberry Pi5 Cluster 02:40 PoE NVME SSD support 03:22 Alternatives 03:44 Pi cluster case 04:28 Sponsored ad 05:28 Cloudflare domain (private) 06:52 Kubeadm over K3s 08:18 CKA skills 09:20 Cert manager TLS 10:01 Traefik reverse proxy 10:23 Other apps 10:48 Discussion Mentioned Resources Pi5 Kit - https://amzn.to/4gj0kEb Pi5 Board - https://www.canakit.com/raspberry-pi-5-16gb.html PoE NVME Hat - https://amzn.to/4glD48o PCIe SSD - https://amzn.to/42CnPoy TP-Link PoE Switch - https://amzn.to/40GsJOy Cluster case - https://amzn.to/4jEyZiM 1ft Cat6 cables - https://amzn.to/4hDWA10 Beelink Mini PC - https://amzn.to/3PZfB28 GMTek Mini PC - https://amzn.to/4aDEVnY Kubeadm install on Ubuntu video - https://youtu.be/wIZamzt7MkM Udemy deals regularly updated - https://travis.media/udemy * This video was sponsored by Brilliant FOLLOW ME ON Twitter - https://x.com/travisdotmedia LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/in/travisdotmedia FAVORITE TOOLS AND APPS: Udemy deals, updated regularly - https://travis.media/udemy ZeroToMastery - https://geni.us/AbMxjrX Camera - https://amzn.to/3LOUFZV Lens - https://amzn.to/4fyadP0 Microphone - https://amzn.to/3sAwyrH ** My Coding Blueprints ** Learn to Code Web Developer Blueprint - https://geni.us/HoswN2 AWS/Python Blueprint - https://geni.us/yGlFaRe - FREE Both FREE in the Travis Media Community - https://imposterdevs.com FREE EBOOKS 📘 https://travis.media/ebooks #homelab #kubernetes #kubestronaut