https://marek.mahut.dev/tags/openshift/Recent content in Openshift on marek@mahut.devHugoenThu, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://marek.mahut.dev/post/rpi5-microshift/Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://marek.mahut.dev/post/rpi5-microshift/<p>My Raspberry Pi 5 with 16 GB of RAM had been sitting mostly idle for a few months — running the usual homelab suspects, nothing that really pushed it. Then MicroShift caught my eye. A single-binary OpenShift/Kubernetes distro built for edge devices, maintained by Red Hat, targeting exactly the kind of constrained ARM hardware I had on my desk. I decided to give it a proper shot.</p> <h2 id="why-microshift">Why MicroShift</h2> <p>I&rsquo;ve been working with OpenShift professionally for a while, and the appeal of having a real OCP-compatible cluster at home — one that speaks the same APIs, uses the same RBAC model, and supports the same operator patterns — is hard to overstate. Alternatives like k3s or microk8s are fine, but they diverge enough that you&rsquo;re always translating. MicroShift is a subset, not a fork. Anything I test locally maps directly to what runs in production.</p>