kdash VS k3s

A simple terminal dashboard for Kubernetes built with Rust, best alternative k9s

kdash: A fast and simple dashboard for Kubernetes. Its created by me :)

[Optional] KDash

Note: I'm using KDash to monitor the cluster; you can try it or use kubectl, k9s, and so on as you prefer.

When you communicate with a Kubernetes cluster, using kubectl, or a client library, or a tool like KDash, you are primarily interacting with the Kubernetes API server. The API server is responsible for managing the cluster and is responsible for handling requests from a client.

Mostly KDash and if possible progress on a JHipster blueprint for Rust microservices

I'm not building web-apps yet, currently i'm doing a terminal UI app. You can check the cargo.toml for deps. I'm planning to build a Rust blueprint for JHipster quite soon so I'll be able to directly compare productivity with Spring boot. And yes there is no equivalent of SB in Rust but I don't think you need that in Rust, there are great web frameworks like Actix or Rocket which provides most of what you need from SB and since you dont have to do OOP in Rust you actually dont need many Hibernate like features IMO, but you have http://diesel.rs/ to cover that.

For self-hosting I've found https://k3s.io to be really good from the SUSE people. Works on basically any Linux distro and makes self-hosting k8s not miserable.

Yes it’s going to depend on which k8s distribution you’re using. We have work in-progress for k3s to natively support nix-snapshotter: https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/pull/9319

For other distributions, nix-snapshotter works with official containerd releases so it’s just a matter of toml configuration and a systemd unit for nix-snapshotter.

We run Kubernetes outside of NixOS, but yes the NixOS modules provided by the nix-snapshotter certainly make it simple.

K3S: is a lightweight distribution of Kubernetes that is designed for resource-constrained environments. It is an excellent option for running Kubernetes on a virtual machine or cloud server.

I recently purchased a used Lenovo M900 Think Centre (i7 with 32GB RAM) from eBay to expand my mini-homelab, which was just a single Synology DS218+ plugged into my ISP's router (yuck!). Since I've been spending a big chunk of time at work playing around with Kubernetes, I figured that I'd put my skills to the test and run a k3s node on the new server. While I was familiar with k3s before starting this project, I'd never actually run it before, opting for tools like kind (and minikube before that) to run small test clusters for my local development work.

Kubernetes - k3s distribution

I’ve created a local cluster with K3S and installing Windmill could not be simpler with just one chart to configure, which already has sane defaults to get started. For this demo we will also configure workers to passthrough environment variables to our scripts so that they have access to the Kubernetes API server for later.

You should be familiar with Kubernetes and have set up a Kubernetes cluster. I recommend k3s.

K3s' go.mod[0] is insane.

[0] https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/blob/master/go.mod