For the ones still using VM’s or docker-compose, I...
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Lennard Berger
03/22/2022, 10:30 AMFor the ones still using VM’s or docker-compose, I can highly recommend https://microk8s.io/. It’s k8 with a LOT less of the complexity / maintenance involved, which is the main reason why I heard people don’t like using K8
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Will Button
03/22/2022, 12:38 PM+1 MicroK8S is great to use. I've heard Rancher is as well but haven't used it myself. I'm curious if anyone here has used both and has any insight between the two
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DazMac
03/22/2022, 2:22 PMI use K3s it is nice and simple. k3sup is really good as well. You can use it to bootstrap a k3s cluster over SSH or locally. You can also use it in your CI or cloud-init.
I haven't used Microk8s personally
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Anthony Critelli
03/22/2022, 2:24 PMCool, I hadn't heard of k3sup, thanks!
Also adding for the sake of discussion: Kubespray
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Hugo Pinheiro
03/22/2022, 5:09 PMSame I use https://k3d.io/v5.3.0/ for my local testing and https://www.talos.dev/ for the homelab
Hugo Pinheiro
03/22/2022, 5:09 PMI tried microk8s but its a bit of a pain doing ingress in a vm with it
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Lennard Berger
03/22/2022, 5:31 PMwhat pain specifically did you have with microk8 ingress?
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Hugo Pinheiro
03/22/2022, 5:34 PMFor some reason metallb dident want to work properly
Hugo Pinheiro
03/22/2022, 5:34 PMbut its more because of osx and the way docker behaves on it
Hugo Pinheiro
03/22/2022, 5:34 PMk3s just gave a smoother experience out of the box
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Lennard Berger
03/22/2022, 5:35 PMwill give it a try
Lennard Berger
03/22/2022, 5:36 PMI would love to see proper support of podman or any other execution environment but Docker Desktop on OSX, but that’s a whole other can of worms
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Hugo Pinheiro
03/22/2022, 5:36 PMooh
Hugo Pinheiro
03/22/2022, 5:37 PMactually https://rancherdesktop.io/ 😉 supports containerd
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Hugo Pinheiro
03/22/2022, 5:37 PMthats what i been running, still with docker engine enabled for now mostly because some clis still only support the docker cli
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