[Outdated] My approach to Kubernetes installation & management on bare metal

1 May 2020 • Maksym Romanowski kubernetes kubernetes flatcar coreos hypriotos kubespray k3s pulumi helmsman helm

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Installation

x86_64:
- CoreOS (now Flatcar Container Linux) as a Linux distro
- Kubespray as a Kubernetes installer
- Metallb and NGINX Ingress Controller for incoming traffic
arm (Raspberry PI 3B)
- HypriotOS as a lightweight container-oriented Debian-based Linux
- k3s as a lightweight Kubernetes distribution with sqlite instead of etcd
- Metallb and Traefik v1 for incoming traffic

Configuration

Pulumi for everything except Helm charts
Helmsman for Helm charts
kubie for using multiple Kubernetes contexts simultaneously in different terminals