SKYBÆR LABS
Hands-on infrastructure engineering: Linux, automation, and container infrastructure.
The working portfolio of Jay Berryman, IT professional
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Each project gets its own deep dive as it's written up.
I held RHCE certification years ago, and I’m rebuilding those skills from the ground up to recertify.
Each project here goes live once it’s actually finished and documented, not before.
Skybaer Labs is a hands-on record of infrastructure work: building systems, automating them, troubleshooting what breaks, recovering from real incidents, and writing it down so it doesn’t have to be re-learned. It’s not a finished product. It’s the same engineering habits used in production infrastructure work, just made visible.
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Ansible / RHCE Lab
RHEL automation lab built around an Ansible control node: playbooks, dynamic inventory, job templates, and system-hardening evidence.
Read the write-upOpenShift & AWX
Red Hat CodeReady Containers running OpenShift alongside an AWX Operator deployment, managing the Ansible lab from a browser.
Preview the pageWindows Integration
WinLab2025, tying Windows endpoints into a primarily Linux automation environment for cross-platform management.
Preview the pageCRC Crash Recovery
A real incident, documented: diagnosing and recovering a crashed CodeReady Containers environment without losing lab state.
Read the write-upForeman / Satellite
Red Hat Satellite (Foreman) for systems lifecycle management and patching, paired with Image Builder for composing the golden OS images it deploys.
Preview the pageTerraform
Infrastructure as code for the lab itself: provisioning and version-controlling the environment rather than clicking it together by hand.
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