elemental
Elemental is an immutable Linux distribution built to run Rancher and its corresponding Kubernetes distributions RKE2 and k3s. It is built using the Elemental-toolkit (by rancher)
harvester
Open source hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software (by rancher)
| elemental | harvester | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 62 | |
| 252 | 3,564 | |
| 9.5% | 2.6% | |
| 9.7 | 9.4 | |
| 1 day ago | 1 day ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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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.
elemental
Posts with mentions or reviews of elemental.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-28.
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Are there any dedicated linux distros that come out of the box with k8s?
First rancheros then k3os now they are onto Elemental. Suffice to say none of these solutions has even lasted long enough to make them worthwhile. I say build a composable template with cloud-init and be done with it.
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k3os is it possible to install drivers without starting from scratch (Mastering an ISO).
k3os has been superceded by SLE BCI (https://www.suse.com/products/base-container-images/) and Elementatl (https://github.com/rancher/elemental)
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An Ubuntu kernel bug causes container crashes
The rancher stack is pretty amazing.
Elemental is pretty close to coreos: https://github.com/rancher/elemental/
They even have a way to build arbitrary os images: https://github.com/rancher/elemental-toolkit
It's pretty great
harvester
Posts with mentions or reviews of harvester.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-28.
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TrueNAS virtualization using Harvester and Kubevirt
At Harvester v1.1.2, it seems virtual machines on some AMD platforms cannot detect nested virtualization. This might relate to Harvester issue #3900, but that issue is categorized as a user interface bug only. Besides, I can run virtual machines on my Ryzen 5600G node normally (with SVM, IOMMU, and SR-IOV enabled, while /sys/module/kvm_amd/parameters/nested returns 1).
- Are there any dedicated linux distros that come out of the box with k8s?
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🔧I tried out Harvester HCI for the homelab, and it is an interesting solution
With this being nowhere documented, I dived into GitHub issues and found #1479. I learned the bootstrap password is admin, which then allowed me to log in.
- Self hosting our Startup, where do we begin?
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proxmox in docker or vagrant
Or with Hyper-converged infrastructure https://harvesterhci.io/
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Any easy to use gui to create/deploy/monitor k8s for a devops newbie?
Have a look at Harvester if you have a unused pc. It can create a k3s cluster in vms automatically. TechnoTim has done a video about it, looks really easy. Also combines with rancher and longhorn for managing cluster a storage.
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Has anyone used Harvester?
Im currently using proxmox and I want to what the community's feelings towards Suse Harvester. What are your experiences and is it worth trying out?
- Can you do infrastructure as code on non-cloud assets?
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3 node kubernetes cluster - All masters?
This seems like the route, thank you for your response. u/happyColoradoDave pointed me towards harvester which should make VM management easier. Going to go with that to run VMs now.
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Is anyone using kubevirt, oVirt or some "kubernetes VM" solution to fire up Windows (not linux) VM's in any reasonable number?
I assume you mean https://harvesterhci.io/
What are some alternatives?
When comparing elemental and harvester you can also consider the following projects:
elemental-toolkit - :snowflake: The toolkit to build, ship and maintain cloud-init driven Linux derivatives based on container images
homelab - Fully automated homelab from empty disk to running services with a single command.
k3os-kernel - The kernel of k3os
kubevirt - Kubernetes Virtualization API and runtime in order to define and manage virtual machines.
Flatcar - Flatcar project repository for issue tracking, project documentation, etc.
rancher - Complete container management platform
kernel
longhorn - Cloud-Native distributed storage built on and for Kubernetes
linux - XanMod: Linux kernel source code tree
slim - Build and run tiny vms from Dockerfiles. Small and sleek.
k3d - Little helper to run CNCF's k3s in Docker