Foggy Clouds

Welcome! I’m Jourdan — an SRE and Security engineer writing about my journey through cloud and DevOps technology.

This site covers Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Packer, and more.

Automating a Proxmox VE Install

A single USB stick that produces a fully configured Proxmox VE host with zero manual intervention. ...

February 7, 2026 · 9 min · Jourdan Lambert

Deploying Kubernetes with Kubeadm and Calico - Part 1

Introduction This post is part 1 of a series that details the steps necessary to deploy a Kubernetes cluster with Kubeadm and Calico. ...

May 18, 2022 · 7 min · Jourdan Lambert

Deploying Kubernetes with Kubeadm and Calico - Part 2

This post is part 2 of a series that details the steps necessary to deploy a Kubernetes cluster with Kubeadm and Calico. ...

May 18, 2022 · 7 min · Jourdan Lambert

Docker Image Layering

This article covers the operations involved with layering images in Docker. ...

February 24, 2022 · 9 min · Jourdan Lambert

Docker Images Basics

This article is a quick tutorial on Docker image management. ...

February 8, 2022 · 4 min · Jourdan Lambert

Getting Started with Docker

This article is a quick tutorial on setting up Docker Engine on Ubuntu. ...

February 8, 2022 · 4 min · Jourdan Lambert

Terraform and vSphere - mk3

This article focuses on improving upon our mk2 VM deployment project. ...

January 26, 2022 · 5 min · Jourdan Lambert

Terraform and vSphere - mk2

This article focuses on improving on our mk1 VM deployment project. ...

January 19, 2022 · 5 min · Jourdan Lambert

Terraform and vSphere - mk1

This article details the basics of getting terraform to deploy a VM clone from a vSphere template. ...

January 14, 2022 · 4 min · Jourdan Lambert

Getting Started with Packer

This article was written as a short primer on Packer and a quick introduction to how it works. ...

January 7, 2022 · 4 min · Jourdan Lambert