CFcfontes·May 18, 2018
https://github.com/apprenda/kismatic
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8 sourcesAnother possibility is kismatic[1]. That's what we use and it's worked well for us. Their focus seems to be on private deployments so they have good support for metal although they also support cloud deployments.
1: https://github.com/apprenda/kismatic
In Manage Kubernetes Clusters on AWS Using KopsWhy are you doing all of this stuff manually? There are several providers that will set all of this stuff up automatically for you. I like the Kismatic toolkit (https://github.com/apprenda/kismatic), but there are a bunch of others. Sure, maybe once you go to production you'll want to install manually so that you have everything finely tuned the way you want, but learn it by using it rather than trying to have to figure things up front.
Or even better just use GKE for development / learning purposes. Just stop the cluster when you're not using it, and it'll be a lot cheaper than something you won't want to take down because you spent days installing it.
In Kubernetes clusters for the hobbyistMy team at Apprenda built the first K8s distro/toolkit (0) with support for Linkerd last year.
0: https://github.com/apprenda/kismatic/blob/master/docs/LINKER...
In Linkerd-tcp: A lightweight, service-discovery-aware, TLS-ing TCP load balancerI fully understand your issue. Creating a new cluster means for me running a script that sets up a new cluster in ~15min. There is https://github.com/apprenda/kismatic which can help simplify your cluster setup if you run in a enterprise environment.
You can also take a look at https://coreos.com/tectonic where coreos provides a enterprise kubernetes distribution that supports updating a kubernetes cluster without downtime but I personally haven't tested tectonic.
In Container orchestration: Moving from fleet to KubernetesI'd suggest checking out KET (Kismatic Enterprise Toolkit) - https://github.com/apprenda/kismatic
There will be a 1.5 compatible release coming soon.
Disclosure - I do work with the fine folks who made this. But I have had the opportunity to use it myself, and have successfully brought up some small clusters to play around with. I'd say it's certainly worth a look.
In Kubernetes 1.5.0 ReleasedAfter running my own k8s solution I discovered [1]. Kismatic makes a lot of the tasks to setup a cluster much easier.
[1] https://github.com/apprenda/kismatic
In PiCluster: Simple Container OrchestrationKismatic: Open Source Enterprise Kubernetes Distribution
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