5-minute-production-app VS k3sup

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This post doesn't live up to its title, I'm sorry about that.

The title should have been 'We are building a better Heroku FOR PRODUCTION APPS' (we'll add the 'for production apps' to the title)

It should have emphasized the _building_ part, we're just starting. The current 5 minute production app doesn't hold a candle to Heroku at the moment.

It should have made it clear the goals is to improve the speed with which you can configure a production app, not a development app. Development apps on Heroku are already close to perfect. The examples in this post are contrived since it talks about a development app, as rightly called out by Heroku people https://twitter.com/johnbeynon/status/1374306499426652161

It should have gone into why hyper clouds might be preferable https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/5-minute-production-app/deploy...

It should have talked about state, we made a small improvement in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/merge_request... but we should have done the planned work in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/issues/11137 and made one post out of it.

Disclaimer, I am a CNCF Ambassador (voluntary) - so it's in my interest to promote CNCF projects like Kubernetes.

It seems like a good time to mention my blog post from last year "Then he asked me “Is Kubernetes right for us?" -> https://alexellisuk.medium.com/then-he-asked-me-is-kubernete...

Some of the feedback I've had so far is that it was refreshing to get "permission" to consider alternatives vs. the current hype. I use K8s and K3s quite broadly myself, but increasingly see consulting prospects and customers who are not comfortable to make the leap, but are very happy on managed services with their chosen vendor - Azure / AWS / GCP.

GitLab recently released a bunch of terraform to show you how to run side projects in the free tier of a cloud - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/5-minute-production-app/deploy...

The OpenFaaS project again is very coupled to Kubernetes, making it easier to use and more reliable is important to the community and project's future. However, we created a version called faasd that works more like docker-compose. It's received much more traction than we expected and companies and individuals are putting it into production. It does't have clustering, and supports only 1 replica per function, so it's surprising.

I'll keep doing my bit to promote solutions that make K8s easier to understand like K3s (see also k3sup.dev) and to look into alternatives. But as you will see in my blog post - I don't think it's right to assume Kubernetes is the right solution for every team, and every project, without first talking about the problem being solved.

Less than five minutes. I worked closely with GitLab co-founders over the past 7 weeks, and we built the [Five Minute Production](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/5-minute-production-app/deploy-template/-/blob/master/README.md) project that generates AWS infra for webapps with minimal fuss.

# Maintainer: Talha Altinel pkgname=k3sup pkgver=0.13.0 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc='A tool to bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s' arch=('x86_64') url='https://github.com/alexellis/k3sup' license=('MIT') depends=('glibc' 'openssh') makedepends=('git' 'go>=1.20') source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz::https://github.com/alexellis/k3sup/archive/${pkgver}.tar.gz") sha256sums=('24939844ac6de581eb05ef6425c89c32b2d0e22800f1344c19b2164eec846c92') _commit=('1d2e443ea56a355cc6bd0a14a8f8a2661a72f2e8') build() { cd "$pkgname-$pkgver" export CGO_CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS}" export CGO_CFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" export CGO_CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS}" export CGO_LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS}" export GOFLAGS="-buildmode=pie -trimpath -mod=readonly -modcacherw" go build \ -ldflags "-s -w -X github.com/alexellis/k3sup/cmd.Version=$pkgver -X github.com/alexellis/k3sup/cmd.GitCommit=$_commit" \ -o k3sup \ . for shell in bash fish zsh; do ./k3sup completion "$shell" > "$shell-completion" done } package() { cd "$pkgname-$pkgver" install -Dm755 -t "$pkgdir/usr/bin" k3sup mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/" mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/" mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d/" install -Dm644 bash-completion "$pkgdir/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/k3sup" install -Dm644 fish-completion "$pkgdir/usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d/k3sup.fish" install -Dm644 zsh-completion "$pkgdir/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_k3sup" install -Dm644 -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname" LICENSE }

I recommend learning docker first, then pick a vps host from vpsbenchmarks, then use k3sup to deploy a kubernetes cluster on that, then follow a getting-started kubernetes tutorial from there. You'll also want to buy a domain name with tld-list and then provision a TLS certificate with cert-manager and letsencrypt (skip steps 1-4 because Google Cloud is overpriced).

I just installed k3s yesterday using k3sup on 6 VMs (3 masters, 3 workers) each with 2GB RAM ( limited by the actual RAM on hardware, for now ) with Ubuntu 22.04 as the base OS.

k3s installed with k3sup, longhorn for storage, kube-vip for API VIP, and MetalLB for service load balancer using local subnet, and of course Rancher.

My applause to Alex Ellis for writing a clear, direct call to arms!

Their work is super useful and interesting. I've added them to my list of sponsorships: https://github.com/sponsors/alexellis

Yeah, this is the answer, but I would use this with K3S: https://github.com/alexellis/k3sup

$ curl -sLS https://get.k3sup.dev | sh x86_64 Downloading package https://github.com/alexellis/k3sup/releases/download/0.12.12/k3sup as /home/ec2-user/k3sup Download complete. ============================================================ The script was run as a user who is unable to write to /usr/local/bin. To complete the installation the following commands may need to be run manually. ============================================================ sudo cp k3sup /usr/local/bin/k3sup ================================================================ alexellis's work on k3sup needs your support https://github.com/sponsors/alexellis ================================================================ No nos devolverá nada, pero podremos correr lo siguiente para saber si k3sup efectivamente se instalo: