JWSCHMAN

Learning as I go.

Hey there! I'm John, a Certified Linux and Kubernetes Administrator transitioning from 15 years in education to DevOps. I love building and maintaining automated, production-like infrastructure in my homelab and documenting the journey through my projects and posts. You can explore them below, and feel free to reach out if you'd like to connect.

Featured Projects

Homelab — HomeLabo

Automated & Open Kubernetes Homelab

Kubernetes ArgoCD Automation

Cloud Resume Challenge Site — Cloud Resume Challenge

Serverless static site built entirely with IaC

Terraform AWS CI/CD

TrueNAS Gotify Adapter — TrueNAS Gotify Adapter

Get TrueNAS Notifications in Gotify

Go Docker Github Actions

Simple Shelly Exporter — Simple Shelly Exporter

Prometheus Exporter for Shelly Plug US

Go Prometheus API Integration

See all of my projects →

Certifications

Since summer 2024 I've been actively pursuing different certifications to build and demonstrate my skills. Here is what I've earned so far:

CKA — CKA

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

LFCS — LFCS

Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator

Terraform Associate — HCTA0-003

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

CLF-C02 — CLF-C02

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

My Toolbox

Since starting my homelab journey I've grown to know and rely on different technologies. Here is a list of some that I use regularly:

Kubernetes	ArgoCD	Helm
MetalLB	Ingress-NGINX	Cert Manager
Prometheus	Grafana	GitHub
TrueNAS Core	Docker	Nextcloud

Latest Posts

Site update

Site update

2025-09-02

I did the Cloud Resume Challenge

I did the Cloud Resume Challenge

2025-07-16

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Get In Touch

Email: john.schmanski@gmail.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jwschman