I saw Terraform and was out, because I don’t have the money to pour into recurring costs. Can we have nice things without it being a hook to buy something?
Terraform is free and open source.
Their paid product is a hosting solution.
Bare-Metal Kubernetes with K3s
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Re: Bare-Metal Kubernetes with K3s
#12I don't entirely understand what's happening here. The title and the post talk a lot about "Bare-Metal", but it also seems to indicate that everything is hosted on servers running Ubuntu. Which, if accurate, seems to be Kubernetes running on Linux, not bare-metal?
Re: Bare-Metal Kubernetes with K3s
#13I don't entirely understand what's happening here. The title and the post talk a lot about "Bare-Metal", but it also seems to indicate that everything is hosted on servers running Ubuntu. Which, if accurate, seems to be Kubernetes running on Linux, not bare-metal?
I guess "bare-metal" is Newspeak for "running directly on hardware without a hypervisor".
Re: Bare-Metal Kubernetes with K3s
#14That's not what bare-metal means.
Re: Bare-Metal Kubernetes with K3s
#15I don't entirely understand what's happening here. The title and the post talk a lot about "Bare-Metal", but it also seems to indicate that everything is hosted on servers running Ubuntu. Which, if accurate, seems to be Kubernetes running on Linux, not bare-metal?
Bare-metal refers to running on hardware directly (vs. running on VMs or the cloud). I'm interested to know what you thought it was.
Re: Bare-Metal Kubernetes with K3s
#16I don't entirely understand what's happening here. The title and the post talk a lot about "Bare-Metal", but it also seems to indicate that everything is hosted on servers running Ubuntu. Which, if accurate, seems to be Kubernetes running on Linux, not bare-metal?
Kubernetes relies on containers, which are made out of cgroups and namespaces. Those are Linux features, so there's no way around that.
This is as bare-metal as it gets since it's not running on a VM.
Re: Bare-Metal Kubernetes with K3s
#17I don't entirely understand what's happening here. The title and the post talk a lot about "Bare-Metal", but it also seems to indicate that everything is hosted on servers running Ubuntu. Which, if accurate, seems to be Kubernetes running on Linux, not bare-metal?
Bare-metal refers to running on hardware directly (vs. running on VMs or the cloud). I'm interested to know what you thought it was.
Traditionally “bare-metal” would refer to running directly on physical hardware with no operating system. In the context of cloud providers, “metal” does now seem to mean “doesn’t run in a VM” but to varying extents. Seems like an unnecessary overload.
Re: Bare-Metal Kubernetes with K3s
#18I don't entirely understand what's happening here. The title and the post talk a lot about "Bare-Metal", but it also seems to indicate that everything is hosted on servers running Ubuntu. Which, if accurate, seems to be Kubernetes running on Linux, not bare-metal?
Kubernetes relies on containers, which are made out of cgroups and namespaces. Those are Linux features, so there's no way around that. This is as bare-metal as it gets since it's not running on a VM.
Point here is that term bare-metal cannot apply to applications relying on OS features. Unikernels are the closest thing you can use this term in this area.
Re: Bare-Metal Kubernetes with K3s
#19I don't entirely understand what's happening here. The title and the post talk a lot about "Bare-Metal", but it also seems to indicate that everything is hosted on servers running Ubuntu. Which, if accurate, seems to be Kubernetes running on Linux, not bare-metal?
Bare-metal refers to running on hardware directly (vs. running on VMs or the cloud). I'm interested to know what you thought it was.
In the dark ages, when running an OS in the way you're referring to 'bare metal' was the default, it meant running something without a traditional kernel underneath it.
Not many things are written to do that, of course. Oracle used to offer an installation mode like this. It was generally a gimmick - you pay for a tiny bit of performance with a ton of flexibility. There are probably use cases where it makes sense, but not that many.
Re: Bare-Metal Kubernetes with K3s
#20What I'd like to see for change is actually doing the bare metal part itself. I've seen so many k8s showcase posts of this or that, but never actually someone who's running it on actual servers they own and without using any big four cloud API's (I consider Equinix to be part of those too soon...) to handle the LB/Ingress/Network virtualization stuff they provide and still say it is easy to use..
we are running k3s on metal in production. works great actually.
we use haproxy as ingress and lb.