I Passed EX280: Red Hat OpenShift Administrator

A personal reflection on passing EX280 through official Red Hat training, objective-driven study, documentation, and hands-on OpenShift practice in my home lab.

Aug 11, 2026 · 5 min · Mohamed Ayman

Install an Additional NVMe SSD in the AOOSTAR GEM10

A practical hardware-to-Proxmox guide for adding a 2 TB Lexar NM790 NVMe SSD to the AOOSTAR GEM10 home-lab server.

Aug 3, 2026 · 8 min · Mohamed Ayman

Road to EX280: Preparing for OpenShift Administration

My EX280 preparation plan combines official Red Hat training and documentation with repeatable OpenShift practice in my Proxmox home lab.

Aug 2, 2026 · 5 min · Mohamed Ayman

Deploy a Single-Node k3s Kubernetes Cluster on Proxmox with kcli

A tested kcli workflow for deploying k3s on Proxmox, with the storage and kubeconfig problems I hit along the way.

Jul 29, 2026 · 9 min · Mohamed Ayman

Install kcli on macOS and Manage Proxmox VMs

A practical guide to running kcli on a Mac, configuring Proxmox API and SSH access, and creating the first VM from a cloud image.

Jul 29, 2026 · 10 min · Mohamed Ayman