awesome-home-kubernetes

rning these tools which is not easy, but from my interactions with people who do take the plunge from docker-compose or docker-swarm most of them stay and once they see the benefits of GitOps and Kubernetes cannot go back to their previous ways. Automation is king and it is much easier using Kubernetes because most of the tools exist for it already. 1. https://github.com/k8s-at-home/template-cluster-k3s 2. https://github.com/onedr0p/home-ops 3. https://github.com/k8s-at-home/awesome-home-kubernetes

o much sense, but so far i feel like such attempts are still basically unknown. heroku's really simmered it down to something that made extremely natural sense. huge props to that. too too much of this effort had to go into creating buildpacks & supporting language environments very very carefully very actively, that ability to stealth-containerize an app & not even notice is so much of the special sauce that makes this a hard, hard & eternal problem (because langauges/envs keep changing). there's still a lot of ease of use to Heroku that's potentially will be underrated and/or lost by the oncoming generations. i have high respect for how operateable Heroku is. [1] https://github.com/k8s-at-home/awesome-home-kubernetes [2] https://github.com/onedr0p/home-cluster/blob/main/cluster/ap... [3] https://github.com/weaveworks/awesome-gitops#tools

good, well-maintained documentation. If you're even luckier, maybe those same guys still work for you. "Only us good right & virtuous & amazing engineers can handle this! This is too pure, too amazing for mortals! They're wasting their time! They'll get the configuration wrong! They're bad people. Only professionals are qualified to play with Kubernetes!" UGH ENOUGH. Stop this terrible attitude. This is so down-talk-y. Please don't assume, please don't dictate your limited terms to the world. Let the world try. Let us not be cowed, & afraid, to use good tech, by these scare words. As it turns out, it's just not that hard. It's a better environment, a better world. There are lots of home users using Kubernetes. It doesn't take a colossal investment. It's fairly secure out of the box, at least if you're not trying to run a multi-tenant home. It just works. This blog post shows that! It's really simple. See? Look. Lots of projects: https://github.com/k8s-at-home/awesome-home-kubernetes . Lots. Good people, just trying. Not taking the poison words to be afraid, that this is too hard. "For one person, this means nothing. This guy is just doing it for fun." What a BAD ATTITUDE. Snarking & being mean, to people out there, trying to find better ways to do things, to create shared, meaningful value. With good, autonomic systems. With reasonably competent free-to-everyone utility scale / cloud computing. Don't accept such words as these. Do not be afraid to involve yourselves. Do not be gate-kept like this. Run Kubernetes. Run good systems. Stop being sold on second, third rung systems. Believe in yourselves. Don't exclude yourself, be afraid. You are not saving yourselves any hardship by choosing lesser technology. You can run K3S in <20 minutes, and you can start loading amazing manifests & Charts seconds after. This blog write up shows that. IT MAKES PEOPLE AFRAID to think how democratic technology could be. Please allow yourself a moment of un-doubt where you consider, maybe, this has amazing value for the home, that it's already possibly incredibly robust, please consider that applying some manifests might be super easy. Please consider that blog posts are the canonical way to share work, before Kubernetes, but now I can link you to a repo full of people sharing manifests & charts & works, that stand a decent chance of running on any cloud or at home. There's a lot of sophisticated under-the-hood boons to running Kubernetes too, but as for what the home-user gains: it's amazing. It's easy to understand, eventually, and shared. Skills learned building one thing in Kubernetes parlay much better into doing other Kubernetes tasks, related or not so much. Kubernauts are growing & learning & exploring, in a far more communal, shared operational way than what loose daemon-monkey-wrenching spread-out weirdness came before. It's not hard, it's not weird, it's not for enterprise. It runs out of the box, nicely. It's for people who want a good means to think about & control a wide variety of digital things. People who want a reasonably consistent underpinning to their technical operations. The alternative, what we had been doing, is having a lot of different things that each had their own means to be thought of & controlled; dis-unified, chaotic, piece-meal, inconsistent. Come try a better more unified way of computing. Come try utility computing. It's for people, all people. Many of us believe it serves us all better.

general proposes that you should have working models for the state of your world. In addition to the out-of-the-box machinery you get for running containers (deployment-sets), exposing them (services), &c, you get this pattern. You get other folks building operators/controllers that implement this pattern[1]. You get a consistent, powerful, extensible way of building. Nothing else comes close. There's nothing remotely as interesting in the field right now. The Cult of Easy is loud & bitterly angry about Kubernetes, hates it's "complexity", but what is actually complex is having a dozen different operational environments for different tools & systems. What is actually complex is operating systems yourself, rather than having operators to maintain systems. Kubernetes has some initial costs, it can feel daunting, but it is radically simpler in the long run because _it has a paradigm,_ an all inclusive paradigm that all systems can fit into, and the autonomic behaviors this paradigm supports radically transfer operational complexity from human to computer, across that broad/all-inclusive range of systems. There's a lot of easier this/harder that. No one tries to pitch Nomad or anything else as better, as deeper, as being more consistent, having a stronger core. Every article you hear on an alternative to Kubernetes is 98% "this was easier". I think those people, largely, miss the long game, the long view. A system that can adapt, that operationally can serve bigger & bigger scopes, ought to pay dividends to you as years go by. Kubernetes may take you longer to get going. But it is time enormously well spent, that will increase your capability & mastery of the world, & bring you together with others building radically great systems whether at home[2][3] or afar. It will be not just a way of running infrastructure, but help you re-think how you develop, and how to expose your own infrastructure & ideas more consistently, more clearly, in the new pattern language of autonomic machines that we have only just begun to build together. I encourage the bold explorers out there, learn Kubernetes, run Kubernetes. And to those of you pitching other things, please, I want you to talk up your big game better, tell me late-game scenarios, tell me how your system & I are going to grow together, advance each other. [1] https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/architecture/controller/... [2] https://github.com/onedr0p/home-cluster [3] https://github.com/k8s-at-home/awesome-home-kubernetes