kairos VS deckhouse

I've been eyeing Kairos [1] which is an OS lifecycle management system for k3s which looks like a nice way to deploy k3s.

[1]: https://github.com/kairos-io/kairos

https://github.com/kairos-io/kairos updates!

kairos.io – Turn your existing distro into an immutable OS with k8s. It is the logical successor of what k3os intended (kind of).

Check out this TNS blog and Kairos blog about the Kairos project. It is a meta distribution, which addresses the issues around immutable distros at a more fundamental level while providing much more flexibility.

Kairos could fit the bill here - I don't think it supports Windows but it does have a cool Network Boot project called AuroraBoot.

kairos.io

Did you heard about https://github.com/kairos-io/kairos ? It supports any base OS (Fedora, openSUSE, Alpine, Rockylinux, Ubuntu, ..), and follows strongly the same K3OS principles. It is immutable, with an A/B upgrading mechanism and it is container based so it is easy to customize to fit your needs. It is community-driven, with no strings attached to any distribution or vendor.

Yes Kairos. KaiOS is a mobile Linux distribution unrelated to Kubernetes.

up to now we have MetalLB and Kubevirt, but here is a list of the ones that were brought up by the community (and planning to add): https://github.com/kairos-io/kairos/issues/592, feel free to add your feedback and tell what you would like to see there!

And while k3s sounds easy, it's not after even a slightly larger scale.

If one willing to have in-house k8s today I would recommend https://deckhouse.io/ (I'm not affiliated with them)

Deckhouse

Check Deckhouse as well (https://github.com/deckhouse/deckhouse). Cilium integration was added there recently.

Release Deckhouse v1.26.0 · deckhouse/deckhouse (github.com)

Consider Deckhouse as another option that can be installed everywhere: bare metal, private and public clouds. It has an Open Source core offered in Community Edition, but the pricing for Enterprise Edition is also a fit for small companies. All configuration is made via Custom Resources, all routines (like updating Kubernetes versions and related system components) are automated.

We use cert-manager in our K8s platform for years and it works perfectly. I don't think there is any chance today to compete with it in terms of community adoption. I also can't find any GitHub links for your project which is the most widely accepted way to become trusted by the community — simply because it covers all the basic needs everyone got used to (in the Open Source world): we can see how the code is developed, we can contribute to it, discuss the issues and concerns we have, etc.

We use Vector to ship logs to different storages (including Loki). You can even find the implementation here, however, I am not sure how useful it might be since it's quite specific (Golang hooks for addon-operator). Our manifests are available there as well.