Yuval Noah Harari is an important voice in modern discourse. As a historian, he brings a perspective that relates how patterns of human behavior in the past are relevant to the present. His latest opus, Nexus, is an insightful and sometimes frightening look at what the near future could hold.

Prophet, said I

Two things I appreciate about his writing. One, he cautions us against magical thinking, for instance, that the arc of history tends toward justice. Two, he eschews the idea that “history repeats itself” as the old adage says. As a historian, Harari does not wish to take up the mantle of a prophet, rather that of a guide to help us think out the possibilities that could arise from the information networks we are currently building, like social media, and especially AI.

After hearing Dashaun Carter talk about his Kubernetes cluster on Raspberry Pi on Spring Office Hours , I was inspired to build my own. This project will document the steps I took to set up a Raspberry Pi cluster running Kubernetes.

I wish I had gone to his blog to use his cluster as inspiration first–it looks very cool and was cheaper than mine!

Why

I have been a Kubernetes fan-boy for a few years, but I don’t have much in the way of hardware to run it at home. I wanted something that I could experiment with. Plus I am planning to go for a Kubernetes certification in the short run and figured this would provide a useful playground environment.