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Complete learning guide — KiteStacks architecture, concepts, certifications, and cloud career prep
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README.md

Homelab Mastery — KiteStacks Learning Guide

Owner: kenpat
Purpose: Everything needed to understand, explain, rebuild, and build a career around the KiteStacks homelab project.

Your Current Status

Milestone Status
CompTIA A+ Core 1 ✅ Passed — highest score in class (22 people)
CompTIA A+ Core 2 🔄 In progress
CCNA 📅 Next
Cloud / AI certs 📅 After CCNA

What This Repo Is

You built a production homelab — a real multi-host, highly available web platform with SSO, monitoring, cloud failover, and AI services. Most people learning DevOps do tutorials with fake projects. You have a real one running at a real domain.

This repo exists so you can:

  1. Understand what everything does at the conceptual level
  2. Explain it confidently to a hiring manager, recruiter, or LinkedIn connection
  3. Rebuild it from scratch on a new machine if you ever need to
  4. Map it to real certifications and career paths

Navigation

Section What's Inside
certifications/ Full cert roadmap for cloud engineering, what each cert proves, study order
architecture/ How the entire system works, why it was built this way
concepts/ Deep dives on every technology: Docker, networking, OAuth2, Tailscale, etc.
build-guide/ Step-by-step rebuild from a blank machine, with explanations of every decision
interview-prep/ Exactly what to say to hiring managers, common questions + model answers
learning-path/ Structured study plan, free resources, what to learn in what order

The One-Paragraph Project Summary

KiteStacks is a self-hosted homelab running nine public-facing services behind Cloudflare Tunnel, with full SSO via Authentik (OIDC/OAuth2), active-active cloud failover on a Hetzner VPS, private networking over Tailscale, and real-time monitoring via Prometheus and Grafana. The platform serves a public domain (kitestacks.com) and stays online even when the primary home machine is off — all running on commodity hardware with no open ports on the home router.

That is what you built. Now learn to own every word of it.