kubernetes-the-hard-way VS terraform-hcloud-kube-hetzner

As I delved into the world of Kubernetes, I opted for what seemed like the scenic route—until reality hit. With determination and a sprinkle of naivety, I plunged into crafting a Kubernetes cluster from scratch. Little did I know, I was in for a wild ride of commands, configurations, and complexities. But fear not! With the guiding light of a course based on the notorious "Kubernetes The Hard Way" GitHub repository, albeit customized for AWS instead of Google Cloud, I embarked on my journey to build my digital fortress, one step at a time.

Another resource that I found pretty helpful was "Kubernetes the Hard Way" by Kelsey Hightower despite its complexity.

https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way

I recently published Kubernetes the Harder Way, a guide loosely based on Kelsey Hightower's Kubernetes the Hard Way, but lenghtier, more explanatory, broader in scope, and - most importantly - harder, by targeting a local machine instead of Google Cloud Platform.

How about this? It will setup a kubernetes cluster on GCP with 3 worker nodes?

https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way

Some costs here but click on the google cloud calc as it seems to have gone up since he wrote this:

If you wanna go all in: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way

Oh, and both: "Kubernetes up and Running" and "Production Kubernetes" are great books.

Using Kubernetes The Hard Way is a great way to learn it deeply and quickly.

If you wanna learn it deeply and quickly, Kelsey Hightower's Kubernetes the hard way is fantastic!

Hetzner starting with https://github.com/kube-hetzner/terraform-hcloud-kube-hetzne..., plus registry using DigitalOcean.

However in the end my goto solution is k3s on hetzner cloud since it's got support for load balancers, ingress controllers with public IPS, persistent storage etc. It's cheaper than all the other cloud providers, although you need to run some code it doesn't have a 1 click solution. so I sold my hardware and used this https://github.com/kube-hetzner/terraform-hcloud-kube-hetzner. I run it when I need a kube cluster and kill it by deleting the project.

You can look at this: https://github.com/kube-hetzner/terraform-hcloud-kube-hetzner

This whole setup is around 70euros per month, and I can enjoy usenet and torrent downloads of Linux ISOs to constantly peak at 1Gbps speed. All of this is HA with Kubernetes using this.

OpenSUSE MicroOS, we use it here. Another good option would be Fedora CoreOS

It's not even close to major public cloud providers, but this is my setup:

* https://github.com/kube-hetzner/terraform-hcloud-kube-hetzne... (Terraform, Kubernetes bootstrap)

* Flux for CI

* nginx-ingress + Hetzner Loadbalancer (thanks to https://github.com/hetznercloud/hcloud-cloud-controller-mana...)

* Hetzner storage volumes (thanks to https://github.com/hetznercloud/csi-driver)

Kube-Hetzner supports Hetzner Cloud loadbalancers and volumes out of the box, though it also supports other components.

With Hetzner VMs and k3s one could run a k8 cluster with amazingly low cost. There are even ready-made repos that make it lighting fast to deploy and easy to maintain...

https://github.com/kube-hetzner/terraform-hcloud-kube-hetzne...

Even Hetzner maintains a few repos for that:

https://github.com/orgs/hetznercloud/repositories?q=kubernet...