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terraform
Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.
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manifesto
The OpenTF Manifesto expresses concern over HashiCorp's switch of the Terraform license from open-source to the Business Source License (BSL) and calls for the tool's return to a truly open-source license.
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foundation
☁️♮🏛 This repo contains several documents related to the operation of the CNCF. File non-technical issues related to CNCF here.
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The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better rke2 alternative or higher similarity.
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A Comparative Analysis of K3s, MicroK8s, and Alternatives
K3s is truly great - been using it for years for just about everything not warranting a full cluster. MicroK8s feels like it does too much in non-standard ways and when it breaks you're suddenly dealing with Snap related issues and it's a total immersion break.
Lately there's also RKE2 (https://docs.rke2.io/) that I've been growing fondness for and it's only marginally more tricky to setup, with the bonus effect of having a more 'standard' cluster distribution and more knobs to twist.
Not that I'd be shy of running K3s in production, but it seems easier to follow 'standard Kubernetes way' for things without having to diff with some of K3s's default configuration choices - which, again, aren't bad at all for folks who do not need all of the different options.
For edge workloads and smaller clusters / less familiar operators that want to run Kubernetes platforms themselves without depending on a managed provider, K3s is pretty impossible to beat.
- Instalação do RKE2 em HA
- 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...
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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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rancher/rke2 is an open source project licensed under Apache License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of rke2 is Go.
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