Building a "complete" cluster locally

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on reddit.com/r/kubernetes
#Kubernetes #HacktoberFest #Cncf #Go #Storage

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  • k9s

    🐶 Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!

    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.

  • Vault

    A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management

    hashicorp vault for secret management

  • Scout APM

    Less time debugging, more time building. Scout APM allows you to find and fix performance issues with no hassle. Now with error monitoring and external services monitoring, Scout is a developer's best friend when it comes to application development.

  • OPA (Open Policy Agent)

    An open source, general-purpose policy engine.

    ory suite for identity, authorization (or OPA?)

  • rook

    Storage Orchestration for Kubernetes

    rook/longhorn for distributed storage

  • prometheus

    The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

    prometheus + grafana for monitoring

  • longhorn

    Cloud-Native distributed storage built on and for Kubernetes

    rook/longhorn for distributed storage

  • istio

    Connect, secure, control, and observe services.

    istio for service mesh

  • SonarLint

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  • helm

    The Kubernetes Package Manager

    helm for package management (with argo)

  • Grafana

    The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.

    prometheus + grafana for monitoring

  • Harbor

    An open source trusted cloud native registry project that stores, signs, and scans content.

    harbor for container registry

  • Concourse

    Concourse is a container-based continuous thing-doer written in Go.

    concourse/drone CI (or argo workflows?)

  • falco

    Cloud Native Runtime Security

    Set up Falco to monitor / alert on suspicious activity

  • tilt-extensions

    Extensions for Tilt

    argocd for cd Tilt

  • ctlptl

    Making local Kubernetes clusters fun and easy to set up

    harbor for container registry ctlptl

  • Puts Debuggerer

    Ruby library for improved puts debugging, automatically displaying bonus useful information such as source line number and source code.

    gitea/gitlab for git GitHub

  • democratic-csi

    csi storage for container orchestration systems

    Storage - democratic-csi looked the most promising, it has worked well so far. I am using zfs-generic-iscsi against an Ubuntu 20.04 storage server. I also tried zfs-generic-nfs and it worked successfully with the caveat of having to deal with NFS file permissions.

  • Keycloak

    Open Source Identity and Access Management For Modern Applications and Services

    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.

  • sealed-secrets

    A Kubernetes controller and tool for one-way encrypted Secrets

    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.

  • velero

    Backup and migrate Kubernetes applications and their persistent volumes

    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.

  • zfs-localpv

    CSI Driver for dynamic provisioning of Persistent Local Volumes for Kubernetes using ZFS.

    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.

  • k3s

    Lightweight Kubernetes

    That is a pretty decent list. Keep in mind, that you'll need a decent machine to run all of this. If you are more interested in things running on kubernetes, than cluster management, you might want to look into k3s/k3d. k3s does not have etcd, but uses a lot fewer resources.

  • cert-manager

    Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates in Kubernetes

    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.

  • keda

    KEDA is a Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaling component. It provides event driven scale for any container running in Kubernetes

    Also, you might want to enable https://keda.sh/ and try to use it.

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