SKYBÆR LABS
Hands-on infrastructure engineering: Linux, automation, and container infrastructure.
The working portfolio of Jay Berryman, IT professional
See how the Linux automation, the container platform, and the Windows enterprise stack all connect into one system, before diving into any one project.
Showcase Projects
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.
Read the write-upWindows Integration
DC01 (formerly WinLab2025): an Active Directory domain, SQL Server, IIS, and a Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager site, with the rest of the lab now joining that domain.
Read the write-upMECM / Windows Deployment
A full Windows 11 deployment pipeline in Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager: site infrastructure, PKI, OSD/PXE, and a root-cause investigation into a sysprep rearm-exhaustion bug.
Read the write-upCRC Crash Recovery
A real incident, documented: diagnosing and recovering a crashed CodeReady Containers environment without losing lab state.
Read the write-upForeman / Satellite
Foreman running on foreman.lab, paired with an Image Builder golden image: repeatable RHEL deployment, validated SSH access, unique host identity per clone, and a real VMware import bug found along the way.
Read the write-upRed Hat Lightspeed
Hybrid Cloud Console remote remediation across RHEL 9 and RHEL 10, a canonical-facts blocker tracked down and fixed, and a reproduced disconnected-system behavior flagged for Red Hat Support.
Read the write-upTerraform
Provisioning VMware Workstation VMs with Terraform, cloned from an Image Builder golden image, after fixing real compatibility bugs in an open-source provider’s Go API client. Foreman and Ansible integration is still ahead.
Read the write-upSplunk Log Aggregation
A Splunk Enterprise deployment server pushing forwarder configs to Windows and RHEL hosts, five real connectivity and config problems chased down and fixed, and a Windows Security Overview dashboard built from the collected event data.
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