[kwlug-disc] micro diversions

[Jason Eckert]

I remember looking into microk8s a while back - it was positioned as a
minikube alternative baked into Ubuntu.

I don't remember many of the specifics, but my initial impressions were
that it wasn't well done/documented, and being a Canonical-specific
thing, probably something to stay away from in general, and as a developer
trying to get a staging environment running.

If you want to run a local K8s cluster for devops-y things, nothing beats
K3s in my opinion (made by Rancher, now SuSE after the acquisition). K3s is
vanilla K8s without the cloud provider-specific bloat (you can easily add
that in for a specific cloud provider if you want to run your own K8s
cluster there with it), and comes with all the sidecar containers you need
to get started right away (including the metrics server and Traefik ingress
controller).
My two cents.

On Sun, 19 May 2024 at 16:08, Mikalai Birukou <mb at 3nsoft.com> wrote:

> Ubuntu has microk8s, microceph, even microcloud.
>
> microk8s sets up kubernetes cluster. When you add a machine, it throws
> memory back to how machines are added to SaltStack.
>
> microk8s is a particular setup of kubernetes pieces into a "kubernetes
> distribution".
>
> microceph, it seems, is a particular setup of ceph pieces, looking to be
> a "ceph distribution". Weren't there already juju charms for ceph? Ain't
> juju charms analogs of salt formulas, when you squint?
>
> Am I wrong in the following suspicion: "micro-" is replacing tool like
> SaltStack, giving a prepackaged whatever, ... with max 50 hosts (it pops
> up from time to time).
>
>
> Experience? Opinions?
>
> Is it more strategic to develop one's own SaltStack/other setup configs
> that are easily applied to a sea of machine, then go after easy at first
> micro-... setup. Or, depending on settings, like under one rack, and
> following defaults?
>
>
>
>
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