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In another effort to skirt around using an official cloud provider like AWS, GCP, or AKS I decided to create my own “remote cloud”. It has taken weeks of trial an error and purchasing USB drives to get it right enough to work.

The first part of this process is setting up a bootable USB drive with Alpine Linux, and creating a dual boot environment with a partition on a Windows machine. It is best to use Windows as the primary OS first because certain filesystem types are not recognized by Windows and could cause startup issues.

Firstly, I would not place myself on either side of the isle in the Windows vs Mac debate when it comes to Operating Systems (OS). I see them both as nice but faulty systems outside of graphic and web development. I prefer Linux, specifically Ubuntu because of the ease of maintenance, OS customization, and the large variety of supported distribution packages. If Alpine Linux provided more packages I could install using apk, Alpine’s package manager, it would rank higher than Ubuntu for me.

Golang is a high level programming language that can be used to create web applications, APIs, and simple function programs.

It is nice to build and use Go modules in the command line, but containerizing them is much more useful and scalable. What does containerizing a module consist of? Well, once the code is built or compiled it can be moved to any OS, which is a fantastic feature of Go. With a container, the application can be moved into the cloud or other remotely accessed infrastructure.

Hello! Welcome to my WordPress blog! If you have followed my work you know that this website is not permanent and is just a playground for me to learn more about different website publishing tools. Thank you for taking the time to visit and I hope to inspire you with my work.

I am active enough on social media to network and meet cool people doing amazing things, but I am actively and ironically trying to unplug. My personal projects are geared towards local deployments that won’t need internet connections outside of the initial setup, deployments, and package updates.