researchiteng

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   by researchiteng 7y ago

   Thanks for sharing your project (as well as Hetzner cloud which are indeed great). Our target was to use official (vanilla) k8s, the official installer (kubeadm) and the official helm charts for all things we deploy. While it would also wo
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   by researchiteng 7y ago

   Nice project! Please correct me, but it looks sugarkube is mainly focused minikube or for cloud (e.g. kops/etc), right? We chose Ansible as our primary focus is on prem, and setting up linux vms parameters, for all machines in a cluste
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   by researchiteng 7y ago

   Thanks for your question, very good one. We are currently looking to find the right balance of what perms should be OutOfBox and what should be custom setup. E.g. Running things like telepresence CNCF need sshd. And running sshd needs root
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   by researchiteng 7y ago

   what you are looking for is called kubeadm, which is an official CNCF project, in go. BUT: 1. kubeadm won't change your kernel params, or docker or anything on your hosts. It expects someone took care of it (and according to their doc
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   by researchiteng 7y ago

   Hi, it's because metric server is not yet "stable" and fully integrated with dashboard. We keep monitoring it closely and ready to do the switch.
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   by researchiteng 7y ago

   Exactly to the point: this project is mainly focused to on-prem: configures kernel params, k8s HA is with keepalived (or your HW LB should you have one), etc. Should you see something important missings, I would be happy to answer/add
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   by researchiteng 7y ago

   Hi, exactly to the point, these are the ones included Out Of the Box: Prometheus (operator, with Grafana, alertmanager,etc), Nginx Ingress, Heapster (next will be metrics server once helm chart will be stable), Kured, etc. Adding any servic
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   by researchiteng 7y ago

   We also think the future directions are Serverless (Knative based) and Istio. They can be added using their helm charts either post install or via the addons.yaml The idea of this project is to prepare the k8s base for deploying either of t
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   by researchiteng 7y ago

   Getting (aka renting) a k8s from a cloud vendor is probably the most common case, but does not cover everyone's scenarios => hence this project. Along the years we actively looked for best tools and practices and incorporated them i
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    Show HN: Own your Kubernetes: installation, addons, best practices – as code(github.com)

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