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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.
homelab
Posts with mentions or reviews of homelab.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-11.
- My homelab setup's re-usable Ansible role for Dynamic DNS from a gateway/router to AWS Route53 (in case anyone is interested)
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On-Prem Deployments - How are you doing it?
At home in my Homelab I use PXE to provision bare metal nodes, and Ansible to deploy k8s on them. I know this setup isn't really used for anything yet, but I'm kinda proud of it. I can reprovision nodes at will by simply issuing one command, no monitor needed, no keyboard needed. That's the same level of comfort as a hypervisor, but it's bare metal.
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What's your private cluster environment for Kubernetes-related dev
This is my new repo for my homelab and it includes a k8s.yml file, which is much cleaner and uses more Ansible roles to keep various tasks separated. So you can easily break off k8s.yml and all the k8s roles into your own repo if you want to steal it. I'm not completely done with this setup though, I'm testing FluxCD right now because I might want to ditch ArgoCD.
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Bare Metal Solutions
I ended up writing my own, twice actually. Just re-wrote my entire k8s setup for my new homelab. It's published here on gitlab.com. It's not very well documented since it's for personal use but I think it emphasizes how easy it is to setup kubeadm and why there is little reason to make it more complicated than it needs to be.
rke2
Posts with mentions or reviews of rke2.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-03.
- Deploy Nginx Load Balancer for Rancher
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Install RKE2 with Cilium and Metallb
In this essay, we showed how to use Rancher rke2 to deploy a Kubernetes cluster with 6 Debian nodes with firewall enabled. We've also covered deploying Cilium as a CNI for our cluster and have it completely replace kube-proxy so as to increase speed and gain more observability via Cilium tools. This article also showed how to deploy Metallb to manage IP pools and load balance traffic for those IP pools. Throughout this guide, we assumed that we have an external load balancer that will distribute traffic to our workload and control plane nodes. For further information please visit rke2 official documents: "https://docs.rke2.io/".
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5-Step Approach: Projectsveltos for Kubernetes add-on deployment and management on RKE2
In this blog post, we will demonstrate how easy and fast it is to deploy Sveltos on an RKE2 cluster with the help of ArgoCD, register two RKE2 Cluster API (CAPI) clusters and create a ClusterProfile to deploy Prometheus and Grafana Helm charts down the managed CAPI clusters.
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OpenTF Announces Fork of Terraform
Did something happen to the Apache 2 rancher? https://github.com/rancher/rancher/blob/v2.7.5/LICENSE RKE2 is similarly Apache 2: https://github.com/rancher/rke2/blob/v1.26.7%2Brke2r1/LICENS...
- Self-hosted Serverless with Kubernetes for a Small Team
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Just finished migrating my old tower servers to a Kubernetes cluster on my new rack!
To provision all of my clusters, I use Rancher with RKE2. The primary Rancher server is hosted on a bootstrapped RKE2 cluster running on a VPS.
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Golang is evil on shitty networks
Golang has burned me more than once with bizarre design decisions that break things in a user hostile way.
The last one we ran into was a change in Go 1.15 where servers that presented a TLS certificate with the hostname encoded into the CN field instead of the more appropriate SAN field always fail validation.
The behavior could be disabled however that functionality was removed in 1.18 with no way to opt back into the old behavior. I understand why SAN is the right way to do it but in this case I didn’t control the server.
Developers at Google probably never have to deal with 3rd parties with shitty infrastructure but a lot of us do.
Here’s a bug in rke that’s related https://github.com/rancher/rke2/issues/775
- Documentation on how to deploy an RKE2 cluster with rancher?
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K3s or RKE2?
just looking at this myself. I think k3s has more support for arm, but looking through the github repo there are a lot of bugs indicating its a mess. RKE2 seems to be their big push, they also have a github issue open that has been open for the last 2 releases that they are going to add a update path from k3s to rke2. https://github.com/rancher/rke2/issues/881
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Best way to install and use kubernetes for learning
RKE (https://rancher.com/docs/rke) and RKE2 (https://docs.rke2.io/) from Rancher folks