metallb
A network load-balancer implementation for Kubernetes using standard routing protocols (by metallb)
kube-plex
Scalable Plex Media Server on Kubernetes -- dispatch transcode jobs as pods on your cluster! (by munnerz)
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| 5,659 | 1,132 | |
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| 9.2 | 0.0 | |
| 3 days ago | 16 days ago | |
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| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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metallb
Posts with mentions or reviews of metallb.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-21.
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PaperLB: A Kubernetes Network Load Balancer Implementation
Not to take anything away from OP but MetalLB also provides local load balancing.
Quoting from their docs:
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libvirt-k8s-provisioner - Ansible and terraform to build a cluster from scratch in less than 10 minutes ok KVM - Updated for 1.26
metalLB to manage bare-metal LoadBalancer services - WIP - Only L2 configuration can be set-up via playbook.
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Créer des applications directement dans Kubernetes avec Acorn …
MetalLB
- Loadbalancer is always pending
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How hard is it to deploy kubernetes on bare metal in 2022 ?
Set up MetalLB https://metallb.universe.tf/ either via helm or simple manifest. Pick a range of ips to allocate, and assign via manifest https://metallb.universe.tf/configuration/
- Kubernetes e netstat
- K3s with multiple external IPs per node?
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libvirt-k8s-provisioner - Ansible and terraform to build a cluster from scratch in less than 10 minutes ok KVM - Updated for 1.25
metalLB to manage bare-metal LoadBalancer services - WIP - Only L2 configuration can be set-up via playbook.
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Back to basics: accessing Kubernetes pods
-- MetalLB
kube-plex
Posts with mentions or reviews of kube-plex.
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Secondary Plex Server
There are some projects to distribute transcoding jobs like the Unicorn Transcoder (last activity in 2021), Remote Transcoder (last activity in 2017) or the Kubernetes project (last activity in 2020)
- Any Multi-Media (e.g. Plex) Which Works With Load Balancer (Multiple-Server)
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Plex on Kubernetes with hardware decoding... Victory
not OP, but I have some experience with Kubernetes, plex is the last service that I haven't yet migrated to my K3s cluster. Generally speaking, Kubernetes doesn't mean HA, it does mean that if a node goes down, plex will ideally spin on on another (assuming everything is correctly configured) but an application needs to be designed specifically to be deployed in a HA way in order to scale horizontally like you are suggesting. You can see in the picture that only 1 Pod (a unit that holds a container) is actually running. There is/was a project to separate our transcode jobs into their own pods to allow for horizontal scaling of transcode jobs, but it looks like it hasn't been updated in years, sounds a bit hacky and I haven't had the confidence to try it just yet.
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32 Node KBN-I/5200 Kubernetes cluster running Debian 10/K8s 1.17/Intel Core i7/8GB RAM each. Used the standoffs and mounted each 8 stack to empty trays. Disks are 64GB USB3 sticks.
I've been there and it's not officially supported by Plex or even Jellyfin or Emby. There's kube-plex which is not maintained anymore, probably the most success you could have is with unicorn transcoder however it forces you to stay pinned to a Plex version until the maintainers push an update.
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Raspberry Pi POE cluster
Theres kube-plex, which does this https://github.com/munnerz/kube-plex
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k8s-mediaserver-operator - Your all-in-one resource for your media needs! - Plex/Jackett/Radarr/Sonarr/Transmission
Btw it looks like kube-plex (with pod transcoding) isn't dead yet https://github.com/munnerz/kube-plex/pull/97#issuecomment-620610658
Take a look at this. Never tried it but it’s on my to do list. https://github.com/munnerz/kube-plex
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Kubernetes: Is this possible with Plex?
https://github.com/munnerz/kube-plex sets Plex up to do exactly that. As far as I know, it doesn't distribute a single transcode job across nodes (e.g. one movie being streamed by one client will run on one node), but multiple transcodes will be distributed independently.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing metallb and kube-plex you can also consider the following projects:
kube-vip - Kubernetes Control Plane Virtual IP and Load-Balancer
calico - Cloud native networking and network security
UnicornTranscoder - Remote transcoder for Plex
ingress-nginx - Ingress-NGINX Controller for Kubernetes
charts - ⚠️ Deprecated : Helm charts for applications you run at home
external-dns - Configure external DNS servers (AWS Route53, Google CloudDNS and others) for Kubernetes Ingresses and Services
cert-manager - Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates in Kubernetes
home-cluster - My home server cluster, managed by flux and defined as code here
rancher - Complete container management platform
cilium-cli - CLI to install, manage & troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters running Cilium
k3sup - bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s 🚀
PowerDNS - PowerDNS Authoritative, PowerDNS Recursor, dnsdist