eks-anywhere VS community-edition

I'd suggest move from rancher to EKS Anywhere and the respective Cluster API providers... Self-managed node pools on top of bottlerocket can be established using common terraform-aws-eks module, otherwise.

There are plenty of vendor specific bugs, like no EBS in [EKS Fargate](https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap/issues/1113), and settling a Kubernetes cluster on top of Bottlerocket and [EKS Anywhere](https://github.com/aws/eks-anywhere), on your own is somewhat impossible.

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> It has no init system.

Apologies that I can't link directly to the "--init" flag but docker actually does have an init, it's just (err, was?) compiled into the binary: https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/run/#op...

My recollection is that it either adopted, or inspired, https://github.com/Yelp/dumb-init#readme which folks used to put into their Dockerfile as the init system back in the day

Folks (ahem, I'm looking at you, eks-anywhere[0]) who bundle systemd into a docker container are gravely misguided, and the ones which do so for the ability to launch sshd alongside the actual container's main process are truly, truly lost

0: https://github.com/aws/eks-anywhere/issues/838#issuecomment-...

EKS anywhere looks like an adventure - https://anywhere.eks.amazonaws.com

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First class integration and support by most of the cloud providers (DOKS, AKS (Which has been opensourced))

"They have even abandoned their Tanzu community edition." https://tanzucommunityedition.io/

Actually it is free for non-commercial use in a vSphere env up to 100 cores. For public cloud I have no idea how do they count the licenses/cores but you can give a shoot with the TKG. The TKG replaces the TCE. https://tanzucommunityedition.io

You choose to run production workloads on the community edition?

e.g. https://tanzucommunityedition.io/ has some opinions about how to set things up but there's no support contract, so I'd view it as providing guidance or defaults that are likely to work for most use-cases, similar to "I want to make a web app but i'm not already an expert with years of production experience, so i'll use a framework like django/rails/spring/etc. instead of writing free-form from scratch"

Tanzu Community Edition (https://tanzucommunityedition.io/) with "unmanaged clusters" is a fully free + OSS solution for using the cluster and package management tools of vmware's Tanzu without being locked in to other parts of the vmware stack. I honestly don't know all the details but there's a way of buying a support contract also.

You can check out TCE https://tanzucommunityedition.io/ This helps to setup in a single click with UI based deployment

Making its cluster available for many flavors through its Community Edition called TCE (Tanzu Community Edition)

Might I sugest Tanzu? https://tanzucommunityedition.io/

Tanzu Community Edition also supports vSphere/AWS - https://tanzucommunityedition.io/

Hey vnadkarni! Would be great for you to join the community on the Kubernetes Slack. Questions can also be posted in the GitHub Issues or Discussions.