Okay, this thing might be real

After a crazy week of hacking, my conviction really started to sharpen that I had something really interesting on my hands. It was the server Linux distribution I’d always wanted: Kubernetes. We’d made something that I wanted, so it might be something someone else wanted too.

I was still in a mode where I was laser-focused on replacing the distro of my homelab, but I took a beat to make sure the project was real. I made a GitHub org, I gave it a website. I even started the first version of that website on a little 1GB Linode.

Needless to say, I’ve since rethought that deployment architecture. At the time I felt that I should have at least one place to dogfood it for “real”. A cloud provider instance did serve well as a real persistent deployment, but the true endgame was always physical hardware, which would take another couple of weeks.