MicroK8s – Low-ops, minimal Kubernetes, for cloud, clusters, Edge and IoT

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  • microk8s

    MicroK8s is a small, fast, single-package Kubernetes for datacenters and the edge.

  • Doesn't look like it.

    https://github.com/ubuntu/microk8s/issues/988#issuecomment-6...

  • k3s

    Lightweight Kubernetes

  • Deploying k8s has gotten a lot easier these days -- some alternatives in this space:

    - https://docs.k0sproject.io (https://github.com/k0sproject/k0s)

    - https://k3s.io (https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/)

    k0s is my personal favorite and what I run, the decisions they have made align very well with how I want to run my clusters versus k3s which is similar but slightly different.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • k3sup

    bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s 🚀

  • Thanks for mentioning K3sup [0]

    I used Microk8s on a client project late last year and it was really painful, but I am sure it serves a particular set of users who are very much into the Snap/Canonical ecosystem.

    In contrast, K3s is very light-weight and can be run in a container via the K3d project.

    If folks want to work with K8s upstream or development patches against Kubernetes, they will probably find that KinD is much quicker and easier.

    Minikube has also got a lot of love recently, and can run without having a dependency on Virtual Box too.

    [0] https://k3sup.dev/

  • k0s

    k0s - The Zero Friction Kubernetes

  • Deploying k8s has gotten a lot easier these days -- some alternatives in this space:

    - https://docs.k0sproject.io (https://github.com/k0sproject/k0s)

    - https://k3s.io (https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/)

    k0s is my personal favorite and what I run, the decisions they have made align very well with how I want to run my clusters versus k3s which is similar but slightly different.

  • istio

    Discontinued istio offical suppport for arm64 will land since v1.15. now v1.16 release, this project archived. (by resf)

  • There are unofficial builds at https://github.com/querycap/istio, and it seems like it's got to a point (with Envoy now supporting arm64) that it could be upstreamed. I'll keep track of it for you!

    - istio SC member

  • kubelet-rubber-stamp

    Simple CSR approver for Kubernetes

  • > managing the internal certificates

    I haven't yet set it up, but https://github.com/kontena/kubelet-rubber-stamp is on my list to look at.

    > debugging networking issues

    In this regard, I have had much more success with flannel than with calico. The BGP part of calico was relatively easy to get working, but the iptables part had issues in my set-up and I couldn't understand how to begin debugging them.

  • keepalived

    Keepalived

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • Seaweed File System

    Discontinued SeaweedFS is a fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files, and data lake, for billions of files! Blob store has O(1) disk seek, cloud tiering. Filer supports Cloud Drive, cross-DC active-active replication, Kubernetes, POSIX FUSE mount, S3 API, S3 Gateway, Hadoop, WebDAV, encryption, Erasure Coding. [Moved to: https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs] (by chrislusf)

  • seaweedfs-csi-driver

    SeaweedFS CSI Driver https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs

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