cstor-operators vs harvester

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cstor-operators		harvester
	Project
4	Mentions	62
93	Stars	3,517
-	Growth	3.0%
5.1	Activity	9.4
3 months ago	Latest Commit	about 7 hours ago
Go	Language	Go
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

cstor-operators

Posts with mentions or reviews of cstor-operators. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-02.

Why OpenEBS 3.0 for Kubernetes and Storage?
12 projects | dev.to | 2 Oct 2021

OpenEBS CStor (declared stable), has added support for a CSI Driver and also improved customer resources and operators for managing the lifecycle of CStor Pools. This 3.0 version of the CStor includes:
32 Node KBN-I/5200 Kubernetes cluster running Debian 10/K8s 1.17/Intel Core i7/8GB RAM each. Used the standoffs and mounted each 8 stack to empty trays. Disks are 64GB USB3 sticks.
8 projects | /r/homelab | 1 Jul 2021

It's a little complicated at first but there's also OpenEBS and Longhorn. Longhorn is probably the most easiest to get going with, but I chose rook-ceph because it's very stable.
Looking for a sanity check on a project I'm working on at home, hoping you fine people can help - Raspberry Pi Kubernetes Cluster
13 projects | /r/homelab | 14 Apr 2021

- SMB CSI: https://github.com/kubernetes-csi/csi-driver-smb - OpenEBS if you got the hardware for it: https://openebs.io/
Best Open-Source Distributed Parallel Storage Option for an AI/ML Cluster?
2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 2 Apr 2021

Tried OpenEBS? These two have replication HA features. https://github.com/openebs/Mayastor https://github.com/openebs/cstor-operators

harvester

Posts with mentions or reviews of harvester. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-28.

TrueNAS virtualization using Harvester and Kubevirt
1 project | dev.to | 5 Jul 2023

At Harvester v1.1.2, it seems virtual machines on some AMD platforms cannot detect nested virtualization. This might relate to Harvester issue #3900, but that issue is categorized as a user interface bug only. Besides, I can run virtual machines on my Ryzen 5600G node normally (with SVM, IOMMU, and SR-IOV enabled, while /sys/module/kvm_amd/parameters/nested returns 1).
Are there any dedicated linux distros that come out of the box with k8s?
4 projects | /r/kubernetes | 28 May 2023
🔧I tried out Harvester HCI for the homelab, and it is an interesting solution
1 project | dev.to | 11 May 2023

With this being nowhere documented, I dived into GitHub issues and found #1479. I learned the bootstrap password is admin, which then allowed me to log in.
Self hosting our Startup, where do we begin?
1 project | /r/selfhosted | 27 Apr 2023
proxmox in docker or vagrant
1 project | /r/Proxmox | 12 Apr 2023

Or with Hyper-converged infrastructure https://harvesterhci.io/
Any easy to use gui to create/deploy/monitor k8s for a devops newbie?
7 projects | /r/selfhosted | 4 Apr 2023

Have a look at Harvester if you have a unused pc. It can create a k3s cluster in vms automatically. TechnoTim has done a video about it, looks really easy. Also combines with rancher and longhorn for managing cluster a storage.
Has anyone used Harvester?
1 project | /r/selfhosted | 26 Mar 2023

Im currently using proxmox and I want to what the community's feelings towards Suse Harvester. What are your experiences and is it worth trying out?
Can you do infrastructure as code on non-cloud assets?
1 project | /r/devops | 14 Mar 2023
3 node kubernetes cluster - All masters?
1 project | /r/kubernetes | 18 Feb 2023

This seems like the route, thank you for your response. u/happyColoradoDave pointed me towards harvester which should make VM management easier. Going to go with that to run VMs now.
Is anyone using kubevirt, oVirt or some "kubernetes VM" solution to fire up Windows (not linux) VM's in any reasonable number?
1 project | /r/kubernetes | 15 Feb 2023

I assume you mean https://harvesterhci.io/

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cstor-operators and harvester you can also consider the following projects:

Mayastor - Dynamically provision Stateful Persistent Replicated Cluster-wide Fabric Volumes & Filesystems for Kubernetes that is provisioned from an optimized NVME SPDK backend data storage stack.

homelab - Modern self-hosting framework, fully automated from empty disk to operating services with a single command.

jiva-operator - Kubernetes Operator for managing Jiva Volumes via custom resource.

kubevirt - Kubernetes Virtualization API and runtime in order to define and manage virtual machines.

openebs - Most popular & widely deployed Open Source Container Native Storage platform for Stateful Persistent Applications on Kubernetes.

rancher - Complete container management platform

longhorn - Cloud-Native distributed storage built on and for Kubernetes

zfs-localpv - Dynamically provision Stateful Persistent Node-Local Volumes & Filesystems for Kubernetes that is integrated with a backend ZFS data storage stack.

slim - Build and run tiny vms from Dockerfiles. Small and sleek.

dynamic-nfs-provisioner - Operator for dynamically provisioning an NFS server on any Kubernetes Persistent Volume. Also creates an NFS volume on the dynamically provisioned server for enabling Kubernetes RWX volumes.

Flatcar - Flatcar project repository for issue tracking, project documentation, etc.