IMO an article like this shouldn't just make the claim - it should show how to do it at the home lab level.
Pretty much just install talos and you're done. Deploy the services you need after that.
Kubernetes Is Your Private Cloud
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#12Now you have two problems: kubernetes and your private cloud. The second being that you decided you needed "cloud" to start with.
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#13Managed Ceph in the past. I cannot comprehend someone putting up with the headache that is Ceph in their home lab. To each their own!
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#15Kubernetes is powerful, yes. it is also a feckless rats nest of bolt-ons and ride-alongs. its sharepoint levels of byzantine tuning so complex that, like sharepoint, it comes with its own bespoke administrators that often have little or no knowledge of basic networking or operating systems --only kubernetes--. - Upgrading a kubernetes cluster may as well be an olympic sport. its so draconian most best practice docume…
I dont have any of this experience. I only have to change the version number and the upgrades roll themselves out.
MetalLB is good yes, and admins should have IP knowledge. I ask this in interview questions.
Yes, sheep not pets is the term here. Self healing is wonderful. There's plenty to dig into if you run into the same problem repeatedly. Being able to yank a node out that's misbehaving is very nice from a maintenance pov.
Talos on bare metal to get kubernetes features is pretty good. That's what my homelab is. I hated managing VMs before that.
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#16Kubernetes is powerful, yes. it is also a feckless rats nest of bolt-ons and ride-alongs. its sharepoint levels of byzantine tuning so complex that, like sharepoint, it comes with its own bespoke administrators that often have little or no knowledge of basic networking or operating systems --only kubernetes--. - Upgrading a kubernetes cluster may as well be an olympic sport. its so draconian most best practice docume…
It is infested with the cult of immutability
Immutability is like violence: if it doesn't solve your problem, you aren't using enough of it.
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#17“Everything You Expect from a Cloud, Running on Your Terms“* Except you own ops, management, extension, interoperability, access, security, scalability, redundancy… words cannot express how ridiculous all of the koober propaganda is
And particularly the upgrades every 3 months. Not just your nodes and masters, but every operator you use, and your manifests each time they deprecate a manifest beta version.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pretty much just install talos and you're done. Deploy the services you need after that.
Then install the rest of the owl.
I mean yeah, unless you want a raven, or a hawk. Kubernetes is bare minimum included out of the box. It's very easy to add more services though.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then install the rest of the owl.
I mean yeah, unless you want a raven, or a hawk. Kubernetes is bare minimum included out of the box. It's very easy to add more services though.
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#20“Everything You Expect from a Cloud, Running on Your Terms“* Except you own ops, management, extension, interoperability, access, security, scalability, redundancy… words cannot express how ridiculous all of the koober propaganda is
You have to pick your battles. Most of this stuff isn't necessary to babysit until you're scaling your app tremendously. And by the time you're doing that I'm sure you've got the people to do these things.