zfs-localpv VS k3s

I use it in Kubernetes via https://github.com/openebs/zfs-localpv

The PersistentVolume API is a nice way to divvy up a shared resource across different teams, and using ZFS for that gives us the snapshotting, deduplication, and compression for free. For our workloads, it benchmarked faster than XFS so it was a no-brainer.

Last few months I experimented more and more with all OpenEBS solutions that fit small Kubernetes cluster, using MicroK8S and Hetzner Cloud for a real experience.

I would investigate https://openebs.io/ https://portworx.com/ https://longhorn.io/ if you are forced to you can mount ISCSI on the kublet and feed it to one of those solutions. Keep in mind most of the big guys buy some sort of managed solution that you can point a CSI like trident https://netapp-trident.readthedocs.io

What are some cool projects to self hosted on a home Raspberry Pi (64 bit) Kubernetes cluster (Helm charts). arm64 support is a must. A lot of projects only build amd64 Docker containers which don't run on my cluster.

I currently run:

   - obenebs (provides abstraction for using local k8s worker disks as PVC mounts when running on-prem) -- https://openebs.io/

I didn't set anything actually -- I need to look into whether OpenEBS ZFS LocalPV can facilitate passing ZVOL options (I don't think it can just yet). The only tuning I did on the storage class was the usual ZFS-level options.

What do you use to provision Kubernetes persistent volumes on bare metal? I’m looking at open-ebs (https://openebs.io/).

Also, when you bump the image tag in a git commit for a given helm chart, how does that get deployed? Is it automatic, or do you manually run helm upgrade commands?

ListItem( 'Kubernetes', 'https://kubernetes.io/', 'Container Engines and Orchestration', """Kubernetes is an open-source container-orchestration system for automating computer application deployment, scaling, and management.""" ), ListItem( 'Podman', 'https://podman.io/', 'Container Engines and Orchestration', """Podman is a daemonless, open source, Linux native tool designed to make it easy to find, run, build, share and deploy applications using Open Containers Initiative (OCI) Containers and Container Images.""" ), # Data Storage :: Block Storage ListItem( 'Amazon EBS', 'https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/', 'Data Storage :: Block Storage', """Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) is an easy-to-use, scalable, high-performance block-storage service designed for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).""" ), ListItem( 'OpenEBS', 'https://openebs.io/', 'Data Storage :: Block Storage', """OpenESB is a Java-based open-source enterprise service bus. It allows you to integrate legacy systems, external and internal partners and new development in your Business Process.""" ), # Data Storage :: Cluster Storage ListItem( 'Ceph', 'https://ceph.io/en/', 'Data Storage :: Cluster Storage', """Ceph is an open-source software storage platform, implements object storage on a single distributed computer cluster, and provides 3-in-1 interfaces for object-, block- and file-level storage.""" ), ListItem( 'Hadoop Distributed File System', 'https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r1.2.1/hdfs_design.html', 'Data Storage :: Cluster Storage', """The Hadoop Distributed File System ( HDFS ) is a distributed file system designed to run on commodity hardware.""" ), # Data Storage :: Object Storage ListItem( 'Amazon S3', 'https://aws.amazon.com/s3/', 'Data Storage :: Object Storage', """Amazon S3 or Amazon Simple Storage Service is a service offered by Amazon Web Services that provides scalable object storage through a web service interface.""" )

Ideas from my kubernetes experience: * Cert-Manager is very popular and almost a must-have if you terminate SSL inside the cluster * Backups using velero * A dashboard/UI is actually very helpful to quickly browse resources, client tools like k9s are fine too * Secret: Management: Bitnami Sealed Secrets is the second big project in that space * I would add Loki to aggregate Logs * Never heard of ory. Usually I see (dex)[https://dexidp.io/] or keycloak used for Authentication * I like to run OpenEBS as in-cluster storage. * Istio isn't compatible with the upcomming ServiceMeshInterface (i think), so the trend seem to go toward Linkerd * Some Operator to deploy your favorite Database, is also a nice learning exercise.

For self-hosting I've found https://k3s.io to be really good from the SUSE people. Works on basically any Linux distro and makes self-hosting k8s not miserable.

Yes it’s going to depend on which k8s distribution you’re using. We have work in-progress for k3s to natively support nix-snapshotter: https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/pull/9319

For other distributions, nix-snapshotter works with official containerd releases so it’s just a matter of toml configuration and a systemd unit for nix-snapshotter.

We run Kubernetes outside of NixOS, but yes the NixOS modules provided by the nix-snapshotter certainly make it simple.

K3S: is a lightweight distribution of Kubernetes that is designed for resource-constrained environments. It is an excellent option for running Kubernetes on a virtual machine or cloud server.

I recently purchased a used Lenovo M900 Think Centre (i7 with 32GB RAM) from eBay to expand my mini-homelab, which was just a single Synology DS218+ plugged into my ISP's router (yuck!). Since I've been spending a big chunk of time at work playing around with Kubernetes, I figured that I'd put my skills to the test and run a k3s node on the new server. While I was familiar with k3s before starting this project, I'd never actually run it before, opting for tools like kind (and minikube before that) to run small test clusters for my local development work.

Kubernetes - k3s distribution

I’ve created a local cluster with K3S and installing Windmill could not be simpler with just one chart to configure, which already has sane defaults to get started. For this demo we will also configure workers to passthrough environment variables to our scripts so that they have access to the Kubernetes API server for later.

You should be familiar with Kubernetes and have set up a Kubernetes cluster. I recommend k3s.

K3s' go.mod[0] is insane.

[0] https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/blob/master/go.mod