Why I Replaced Multipass with OrbStack and what an M1 vs M4 Mac taught me about local Kubernetes.
*Part 1 of 7 — "The Mac Kubernetes Lab: A Production-Mirror Setup from Scratch"*
May 15, 20268 min read10
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The Mac Kubernetes Lab: A Production-Mirror Setup from Scratch
This 7-part series walks through replacing Multipass with OrbStack on Apple Silicon and building a dual-cluster Kubernetes setup — a native daily driver cluster and a full VM-based EKS mirror with Vault PKI, Istio, and Crossplane.
One Command, One Working Kubernetes Cluster! Building My Daily-Driver Lab on OrbStack.
Part 2 of 7 — The Mac Kubernetes Lab: A Production-Mirror Setup from Scratch.
May 15, 20267 min read3
Building a Production-Grade Vault PKI for a Local kubeadm Cluster Without the Shortcuts.
Part 3 of 7 — The Mac Kubernetes Lab: A Production-Mirror Setup from Scratch.
May 17, 202611 min read
Same Cluster, Different Mac: A Debugging Story About Unprivileged LXC Containers, iptables, and Why Cilium Replaces kube-proxy.
Part 4 of 7 — The Mac Kubernetes Lab: A Production-Mirror Setup from Scratch.
May 22, 202612 min read
How I Practise Istio Upgrades Locally Before Touching Production EKS.
Part 5 of 7 — The Mac Kubernetes Lab: A Production-Mirror Setup from Scratch.
May 22, 20268 min read
The Disk-Pressure Incident That Taught Me to Always Set LimitRanges and Other Lessons from Mirroring EKS Locally.
Part 6 of 7 — The Mac Kubernetes Lab: A Production-Mirror Setup from Scratch.
May 22, 20268 min read