5 reasons to run Kubernetes on your Raspberry Pi homelab – A new free eBook offers step-by-step instructions for creating a private cloud at home, including what you can do with it when you’r

The open source world likes to talk about an open hybrid cloud, a model that allows you to choose your own infrastructure, select your own OS, and orchestrate your workloads as you see fit. However, if you don’t happen to have an open hybrid cloud available to you, you can create your own — either to help you learn how the cloud works or to serve your local network.

Building your own cloud requires at least three Raspberry Pi units, an Arm Linux distribution to serve as an OS, and Kubernetes to help you manage the containers your cloud will run. Chris Collins explains every step you need to take to make this happen in their new eBook. If you’ve ever built an array of distributed computing nodes, you’ll probably be surprised at how simple it is.

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There’s a saying about the cloud, and it goes something like this: The cloud is just somebody else’s computer. While the cloud is actually more complex than that (it’s a lot of computers), there’s a lot of truth to the sentiment. When you move to the cloud, you’re moving data and services and computing power to an entity you don’t own or fully control. On the one hand, this frees you from having to perform administrative tasks you don’t want to do, but, on the other hand, it could mean you no longer control your own computer.