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A modern cloud native (and self serve) way to manage Virtual Machines

Really!! Are there could native way to deploy, LCM VMs and add Self Serve on top ???? In this post I will describe an art of the possibility using the below tools: RHDH: Red Hat Developer Hub (Open source project: Backstage ) OCP Virtualization: Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization (Open source project: KubeVirt ) AAP: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (Open source project: Ansible / AWX ) RHEL BootC: Image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Open source project: bootc ) GitOps: Red Hat OpenShift GitOps (Open source project: ArgoCD ) Quay Registry or any other OCI compliant registry All of these projects can be run on Red Hat OpenShift (Open source project: OKD ) OR on other Kubernetes distribution or on VMs (you pick your underlying infra. For this post I have used OpenShift for simplicity of deployment, integrated tools and narrowly focusing on the usecases instead of the deployment of the tools).  The main goal here is to: Easily deploy and lifecycle applications and stuffs ...
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Reimagining Logs: Building AI powered Conversational Observability System

It is mid-2025 and the cogs of AI are at full speed. So we (I and Mobin) decided to do our own AI project. We called it "IntelliLogs".  IntelliLogs at a glance: Demo:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXMlORwyMQk In this post I will describe why we did what we did, what is it that we did and how we did it. I will share my personal experience. I am hoping this will, at least, be an interesting read. Table of contents: Why IntelliLogs What is IntelliLogs How IntelliLogs was developed Future of IntelliLogs Conclusion References Why IntelliLogs: Personal motivation ðŸ’ª to this were: Explore and experience what does an AI app look like from an architectural and engineering perspective Explore the realm of Huge LLMs (eg: GPT-4.1-170B,  Gemini Pro etc) vs small LLMs (eg: granite-7b, gemma-4b) Explore the possibilities of model tuning / making a model without being a data scientist. How easy or hard it is, what tools available etc. We also wanted to tackle a "not too far from ...
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Openshift-Powered Homelab | Why, What, How

I wanted to build a Homelab for some time but it was taking a backseat as I always had access to cloud environments (eg: cloud accounts, VMware DC etc) and the use cases I was focusing on didn't really warrant for one. But lately, some new developments and opportunities in the industry triggered the need to explore use cases in a bare-metal server environment, ultimately leading to the built of my own homelab, called MetalSNO. In this post, I will discuss some of my key reasons for building a homelab, the goals I set for it, and the process I followed to building one from scratch. I'll conclude with some reflections on whether it was truly worth it and what I plan to do with it going forward. Compelling reasons (The Why ) My uses cases for a homelab weren't about hosting plex server, home automation etc (I have them on Raspberry PIs for some years now). My Homelab is really about exploring technologies and concepts that are on par with industry trend. Below are some of the ...
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CKA Exam; May 2024: My take on it and cheat sheet

So, I finally got the little green tick of having CKA certification in my certification list. I put off this exam for so long that it seriously became not funny anymore. The internet has quite literally way more than 1000 posts on this topic. But what harm would one more post cause? So here's mine. I will write it from my perspective. I am writing this post just in case if anyone benefits from it, as I predict there could be many on the same boat as me. Background: Kubernetes, modern application architecture, DevSecOps etc are not new territory for me. In fact, I think I am fairly versed in K8s and related tech stack. But due my own imposter syndrome I have been putting off sitting the CKA exam. However, last week I thought about the CKA as "just another approval for my skills" and got the nudge to sit the exam.  Here's what I did till the day I sat for the exam. (Everybody is different but the below worked for me the best) The preparation: As I have been working with...
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