A friend and former co-worker of mine - Alex - was really the inspiration behind a lot of the homelab infrastructure that I learn/develop on every single day. He got me started on what to look for and what services I may want to explore.
As many homelabbers know - this only snowballed from there. I learned much of what I know about Kubernetes and all of the related technologies by trial and error of setting up a variety of configurations and machines. I used this as a platform to enable my learning and testing.
Given the wide-array of available options for where to write and host blog articles - what lead me to Hugo and the markdown -> html translation workflow you might ask? It really comes down to knowing how I operate and what would make this venture successful….
Knowing myself and having tried a number of content delivery blog services - I just didn’t feel at home with writing content in a workflow that suited me. Inspiration striking and translating that into words is still somewhat of a new a skill that I am working to harness. As such, writing articles may be a labor of love that requires multiple writes/re-writes.
You might be asking yourself how you ended up here. I’m just as surprised as you are :wink:.
Nonetheless, these are the hosts for the website you’re viewing - or rather they run this workload and others with some room to spare as an experiment.
(More specifically - Two Raspberry Pi 4’s)
Why?
The answer is because I’m very extra when it comes to looking to accomplish any high-level objective in the most difficult ways possible (kidding of course). So maybe this is less of “Blogging the hard way” and more of “Blogging the extra way”.
