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You don't need Kubernetes to do self-hosting. Completely overkill.
You don't need Kubernetes to do self-hosting. Completely overkill.
You don't need Kubernetes to do self-hosting. Completely overkill.
I would rather choose something like xgp-ng as a hypervisor for a home lab environment such a this, instead of a custom one-off kubernetes environment. Or just a total DIY xen or KVM hypervisor on debian or centos approach. But with considerably more RAM in the host machine than 16GB (like 64-128GB). the kubernetes sort of makes sense if the purpose is also for the person who owns/operates it to test kubernetes thing…
Or just install kubevirt on the existing cluster and manage kvm virtual machines with k8s
I enjoy reading about homelabs that aren't using kubernetes or some other scheduler and how they're doing it/what the full stack looks like. This is just another "how I installed kubernetes" thing only without any real scale behind it. There are other ways to deploy and run things, and it takes people toying around with alternatives for something unique to spring up.
Sadly, I leaned this the hard way by setting up a 4-node k8s cluster and realizing bare-metal support is abysmal and the maintainers simply don’t care about you if you’re not running a cluster on AWS or GCP. Unfortunately my day job still involves k8s and people give me strange looks when I suggest metal so substantially less complex, cheaper, more performant, and easier to orchestrate and maintain.
This is a very good example of how you can save yourself the mental hurdle of remembering how to configure something etc. I can only suspect how much time, trial and error this must've taken. This is my main issue with IaC. The concept really lends itself to any kind of modern infra, however I'm really put off by the sheer amount of time it takes me to whip out a bunch of Ansible playbooks and helper scripts, and on…
It’s a good habit to always use tools like terraform for cloud or Ansible/Salt/Puppet for machines instead of directly doing something. Especially cloud setups that just run containers are relatively easy to get idempotent with terraform
I was surprised to find this on Hacker News, I wanted to wait until the stable release before posting on HN, but thank you for posting :)
This project is still in alpha stage, but please feel free to critique; I'd appreciate it.
Edit 1: After reading some of the comments, I want to clarify a few things:
- Because it is currently in the alpha stage, I do not host anything important on it.
- This is also my learning environment, I use Kubernetes in my day job.
- Yes it is overkill ;)
Edit 2: Wording
Deploying services is 1% of the work. Maintaining them, fixing bugs and bottlenecks is the real works. And you cannot do when you deploy tools worth millions of lines of code. Complexity matters. Those popular products make sense only if you have a 20 engineers is your team or you don't care about reliability.
This is very cool! Have you considered something like Tailscale so you can securely access it from outside your home? I've been thinking about spinning up my own home server that way, seeing as Tailscale makes it easy to securely access it from my phone when I'm out and about.
I just stumbled on a self hosted project similar to tailscale: https://github.com/gravitl/netmaker . There is also https://github.com/juanfont/headscale which is an open sourced implementation of the Tailscale coordination server. Tailscale "just works" and makes things incredibly easy for personal use, but it's awesome that there are also similar self-hosted options out there