kubespray
Deploy a Production Ready Kubernetes Cluster (by kubernetes-sigs)
kubeadm
Aggregator for issues filed against kubeadm (by kubernetes)
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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.
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.
kubespray
Posts with mentions or reviews of kubespray.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-11.
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Zarf: K8s in Airgapped Environments
Worth noting that if you like ansible, Kubespray has had documented air-gap installation since 2018 https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kubespray/commit/963c3479...
- Ask HN: Options for K8s On-Prem
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How many of you are running kubernetes on prem?
About 1yr ago I ran k8s with 300 nodes using kube spray https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kubespray . Never had any real issue with it. We did finally move to the cloud though.
- Automated Kubernetes installation
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Building your own Kubernetes distribution
We build our own distro called Compliant Kubernetes, and we use (a fork of) kubespray to install the base Kubernetes layer. Our distro is entirely open source, so you can use it as a reference, if you want.
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Ansible for provisioning nodes
You may want to look at kubespray. They are ansible playbooks for provisioning clusters.
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Self-Managed Kubernetes Distributions
No worries! I use AWX with Ansible and love it. For this use case I think that is moving in the direction away from what I'm already using (i.e. more advanced). I don't think I need that level of flexibility when it comes to controlling the lifecycle of K8s nodes. Essentially what I'm looking for is something like managed K8s but leaning more towards the self-managed side to have some more level of control, e.g. easy swapping of the CNI or CSI. Another tricky thing is upgrading nodes, which kubespray has established playbooks for. Upgrading K8s via custom playbooks sounds way over my head right now, I can't see benefit in doing that (for myself personally, of course) over using the kubespray playbooks which are robust.
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Best way to install and use kubernetes for learning
KubeSpray (https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kubespray) - uses Ansible to stand up a Kubernetes cluster
- Spin up a bare metal cluster in 2022
- Kubernetes on Bare Metal
kubeadm
Posts with mentions or reviews of kubeadm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-02.
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A local Kubernetes cluster in seconds with Kind
It works on top of KubeADM, you can also implement specific configuration about it.
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Kubernetes from Scratch in 2022
Kubeadm is a more barebones tool, focusing on cluster node setup and Kubernetes component installation. It’s a command line tool that facilitates the various setup operations, but configuration needs to be done manually and per node.
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Kubernetes production best practices
This is a useful guide on how to set them up (note: the version of HAProxy they specify is no longer being maintained, but you can upgrade it to a later version): Kubeadm - HA Considerations
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What is the right AWS Kubernetes distribution for you?
Kubeadm is a cluster provisioning tool implementing the best-practices for creating Kubernetes clusters (following Kubernetes The Hard Way steps). Kubeadm performs the actions necessary to get a minimum viable and secure cluster. It follows Kubernetes operator architectural approach for cluster creation and management. What is also important, Kubeadm is an official Kubernetes SIG Lifecycle project - this is important because official Kubernetes SIG projects usually tent to have better community support and be more mature than their non-official counterparts.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing kubespray and kubeadm you can also consider the following projects:
k3s - Lightweight Kubernetes
rancher - Complete container management platform
minikube - Run Kubernetes locally
kops - Kubernetes Operations (kOps) - Production Grade k8s Installation, Upgrades and Management
rke2
helm - The Kubernetes Package Manager
cluster-api-provider-vsphere
ansible-role-k3s - Ansible role for installing k3s as either a standalone server or HA cluster.
kubernetes-the-hard-way - Bootstrap Kubernetes the hard way on Google Cloud Platform. No scripts.
talos - Talos Linux is a modern Linux distribution built for Kubernetes.
kube-state-metrics - Add-on agent to generate and expose cluster-level metrics.