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10	Mentions	5
349	Stars	342
1.7%	Growth	4.4%
9.7	Activity	9.2
5 days ago	Latest Commit	2 days ago
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cluster-api-provider-vsphere

Posts with mentions or reviews of cluster-api-provider-vsphere. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-24.

VMware cluster – What host OS should we run Kubernetes on?
3 projects | /r/kubernetes | 24 Oct 2022
Good k3s/k8s tutorial/walkthrough/breakdown
1 project | /r/homelab | 2 Sep 2022

follow this guide https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-vsphere/blob/main/docs/getting_started.md
Terraform code for kubernetes on vsphere?
3 projects | /r/devops | 30 Aug 2022

Decided to use this. GitOps FTW https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-vsphere
What is going on with Kubernetes Microdistros?
5 projects | /r/kubernetes | 26 Jun 2022
Broadcom to Acquire VMware for $61B
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 May 2022

Well, Cluster API depends on underlying providers and the VMWare provider is definitely a VMWare thing as it's maintained by them:
https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-vsph...
Kubernetes-in-Kubernetes and the WEDOS PXE bootable server farm
10 projects | /r/kubernetes | 23 Dec 2021
Right Sizing Clusters
2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 22 Sep 2021

Hmm, there is https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-vsphere and https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/master/cluster-autoscaler/cloudprovider/clusterapi/README.md
Serving up storage to docker containers.
3 projects | /r/homelab | 12 Sep 2021
upstream arm64 kubernetes cluster (v1.22.0, 3 controlplanes, kube-vip, 3 workers) on nvidia jetson AGX with ESXi arm edition and Cluster API vSphere
2 projects | /r/homelab | 10 Aug 2021

https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/jetson-agx-xavier-developer-kit https://flings.vmware.com/esxi-arm-edition https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-vsphere
Advice for Kubernetes Kn00b but seasoned linux and vmware admin on best setup to learn containers/Kub. MiniKube + KubeVirt? Let me provide some details. Thanks for your help
2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 12 Jul 2021

Is your suoermicro running esxi + vCenter? If so check out https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-vsphere

image-builder

Posts with mentions or reviews of image-builder. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-10.

Ubicloud: Open, Free, and Portable Cloud
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Mar 2024

Ubicloud's competition has support for cluster-api [0] [1]. Any plans to add Ubicloud?
[0] https://cluster-api.sigs.k8s.io/user/quick-start.html#instal...
[1] https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/image-builder/tree/main/i...
K3s or RKE2?
3 projects | /r/kubernetes | 10 Dec 2022

True but here's what I use. https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/image-builder
VMware cluster – What host OS should we run Kubernetes on?
3 projects | /r/kubernetes | 24 Oct 2022

or build your own https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/image-builder/tree/master/images/capi/packer/ova
I have been playing with Packer and jotted down my experience on how to create a minimalistic Packer Ubuntu machine image and then deploy it on a bare metal server using Tinkerbell
1 project | /r/kubernetes | 30 Apr 2021

Here are some good references which k8-sigs community have for capi. https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/image-builder/tree/deb07baf327b371980802c3879f3757b843c4615/images/capi/packer
Google admits Kubernetes container tech is too complex
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Feb 2021

https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/image-builder
Is a tool that will allow the configuration of base images. It is actually a thin layer wrapper around packer and ansible

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cluster-api-provider-vsphere and image-builder you can also consider the following projects:

kubespray - Deploy a Production Ready Kubernetes Cluster

Dokku - A docker-powered PaaS that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications

cluster-api - Home for Cluster API, a subproject of sig-cluster-lifecycle

Portainer - Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.

cluster-api-provider-hetzner - Kubernetes Cluster API Provider Hetzner provides a consistent deployment and day 2 operations of "self-managed" Kubernetes clusters on Hetzner.

k3s - Lightweight Kubernetes

cluster-api-provider-metal3 - Metal³ integration with https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api

cert-manager - Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates in Kubernetes

cluster-api-provider-azure - Cluster API implementation for Microsoft Azure

community-edition - VMware Tanzu Community Edition is no longer an actively maintained project. Code is available for historical purposes only.

cluster-api-provider-nested - Cluster API Provider for Nested Clusters

exception-handling - Proposal to add exception handling to WebAssembly