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Ask HN: Options for K8s On-Prem
Doing some research into managing kubernetes clusters via on-premise infrastructure.
From what I gather, Rancher is the most popular with both community/open source and paid offerings. But there does not appear to be any other products.
Anybody here have experience with Rancher? Are there any alternatives I may have overlooked? I prefer OSS over proprietary or cloud based
- vmarchaud 3y agoYou could do that with Ansible, there's kubespray [0] from the official project to do that. You may want to read [1] starting with [2]. There's also k3s [0] and k0s [4]. I've written about my setup here [5] also if you are interested. [0]: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kubespray https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kubespray [1]: https://www.tauceti.blog/ https://www.tauceti.blog/ [2]: https://www.tauceti.blog/posts/kubernetes-the-not-so-hard-way-with-ansible-the-basics/ https://www.tauceti.blog/posts/kubernetes-the-not-so-hard-wa... [3]: https://k3s.io/ https://k3s.io/ [4]: https://k0sproject.io/ https://k0sproject.io/ [5]: https://vmarchaud.fr/deploying-kubernetes-the-hard-way/ https://vmarchaud.fr/deploying-kubernetes-the-hard-way/