ansible-role-k3s VS cluster-template

There is another very good ansible role for k3s, actually better than mine

if you have experience with ansible you can use https://github.com/PyratLabs/ansible-role-k3s

Not OP but there's an excellent galaxy ansible role for k3s and it's idempotent, so if you want to upgrade to a newer version of k3s or tweak settings, or add a node it's supported.

Take it to the next level and let git be the source of truth for k8s using Flux! My home cluster repo is exactly that plus I'm using the ansible-k3s-role Galaxy role. It's based on this k8s at home template.

If you are comfortable with ansible there's a nice Galaxy role that I use.

Experience has been good so far but this is the first I saw of KubeEdge. I’m going to give it an evaluation. I used Ansible https://github.com/PyratLabs/ansible-role-k3s to set up the cluster with some minor adaptions and cleanup scripts.

For populating a homelab Kubernetes cluster, onedr0p has a very nice Flux template: https://github.com/onedr0p/cluster-template

k8s is a lot easier for homelabs than it used to be, and imo it's quicker than nix for building a declarative homelab. templates like this one can deploy a cluster in a few hours: https://github.com/onedr0p/cluster-template

here's my home assistant deployment as a single file: https://github.com/pl4nty/homelab/blob/main/kubernetes/clust...

I deliberately nuked my onprem cluster a few weeks ago, and was fully restored within 2 hours (including host OS reinstalls). and most of that was waiting for backup restores over my slow internet connection

example repo: https://github.com/onedr0p/flux-cluster-template

Magical setups like this often get a lot of bad rap, but if you already understand Ansible and know Linux etc, you might find this repo a good start to building out your own cluster using gitops: https://github.com/onedr0p/flux-cluster-template

more of an end-to-end solution than a build-it-yourself, but this was a huge help in my understanding of k8s and the other tech like gitops - https://github.com/onedr0p/flux-cluster-template

idk how it'd scale for a larger operation, but flux+sops+age has worked great for me. based on https://github.com/onedr0p/flux-cluster-template

Here is a really good and VERY thorough example of pulling that all together: https://github.com/onedr0p/flux-cluster-template