Setting Up The Home Lab: Setting up Kubernetes Using Ansible

• Ansible

  396 62,264 9.8 Python

  Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.

  

  In my previous article I went over how to set up VMs in Proxmox VE using Terraform to deploy the VMs and Cloud-Init to provision them. In this article I'll discuss using Ansible playbooks to do further provisioning of VMs.

• Scout Monitoring

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  Free Django app performance insights with Scout Monitoring. Get Scout setup in minutes, and let us sweat the small stuff. A couple lines in settings.py is all you need to start monitoring your apps. Sign up for our free tier today.

  

• kubespray

  59 15,858 9.7 Jinja

  Deploy a Production Ready Kubernetes Cluster

  

  So now that I've got my hosts deployed, it's time to set up Kubernetes. I've cloned the Kubespray GitHub repo and now I'll run the cluster.yml playbook:

• longhorn

  81 5,940 9.4 Shell

  Cloud-Native distributed storage built on and for Kubernetes

  

  Since I want to play with Kubernetes anyway, I'll set up a k8s cluster. It will have 2 master and 4 worker nodes. Each VM will have 4 cores, 8 GB of RAM, a 32 GB root virtual disk, and a 250 GB data virtual disk for Longhorn volumes. I'll create an ansible user via cloud-init and allow access via SSH.

• kubernetes

  708 109,628 10.0 Go

  Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

  

  Since I want to play with Kubernetes anyway, I'll set up a k8s cluster. It will have 2 master and 4 worker nodes. Each VM will have 4 cores, 8 GB of RAM, a 32 GB root virtual disk, and a 250 GB data virtual disk for Longhorn volumes. I'll create an ansible user via cloud-init and allow access via SSH.

• cloudinit

  30 2,851 9.8 Python

  Official upstream for the cloud-init: cloud instance initialization

  

  In my previous article I went over how to set up VMs in Proxmox VE using Terraform to deploy the VMs and Cloud-Init to provision them. In this article I'll discuss using Ansible playbooks to do further provisioning of VMs.

• InfluxDB

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  Purpose built for real-time analytics at any scale. InfluxDB Platform is powered by columnar analytics, optimized for cost-efficient storage, and built with open data standards.

  

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