I'm finally in the raining phase of Kubernetes, and I have a few deployments to talk about. First is the simple one - I created a brand new VM, put everything together with micro Kube, and piddled with it a bit. I honestly was a bit rusty, and I followed a simple setup article to get it going initially. A little discouraged, I circled back to the excellent getting started CNCF Kubenetes tutorial, which gave me a bit of confidence back, and got me feeling a bit more comfy running kubectl again. I really wish there was a spot I could pay to piddle with Kubernetes that had the same feel as the practical tutorial area. Lastly, I'm starting to play with a cloud-based spot, so I can spin up a real k8s cluster in the wild. I spent some time and got this to run once, but I have to do some modernizing and testing to have it be more helpful to me. I have a couple things that are still in the plan -- I still want to mint a home lab, and I need to deploy something interesting. So far I've been following instructions and spinning up examples, but I need to spin up something I'm going to use and play with it. I have been crafting my own Docker image, but there are at least a few images that I'd like to run, and I can take a couple of those as practical deployments.