k3sup
Infrastructure
kubernetes installer
SHOW HN2019
85points
10comments
#568of 2,195 in 2019
Top 26%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
5 positive, 0 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 6 comments about the project. Thread score +0.53.
Idea: 2 for, 1 againstExecution: 2 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Easy to use and works well, including on Raspberry Pi clusters
From 3 comments
I used k3sup last week to setup a 5 node RPi3 cluster. Thanks for the nice tool! Worked like a charm! I wanted to write a tutorial on what’s needed for a proper setup, since I am…
atmosx on HNI used this last week for a 4 node rpi4 cluster. Great user experience.
colek42 on HNWow! This will help me a lot to install kubernetes. I am finding it very difficult to get started.
tarunmangukiya on HN
Objections
Wraps K3s, which already has a one-step install, so it adds little
From 1 comment
Kind (Kubernetes-in-Docker) is already around and it is somewhat of a niche use case. Minikube also exists to satisfy most of the use cases for single-node clusters on a…
gatherhunterer on HN
Shell script installation is hard to version and lock
From 1 comment
This is so cool. Two requests: 1. Can you make k3sup available in a docker image ? Shell script based installation is a bit iffy for most people (cannot version, lock, update…
sandGorgon on HN
Requests
Provide a Docker image
From 1 comment
This is so cool. Two requests: 1. Can you make k3sup available in a docker image ? Shell script based installation is a bit iffy for most people (cannot version, lock, update…
sandGorgon on HN
Bake in metrics and default HPA scaling
From 1 comment
This is so cool. Two requests: 1. Can you make k3sup available in a docker image ? Shell script based installation is a bit iffy for most people (cannot version, lock, update…
sandGorgon on HN
Alternatives named
Kind (Kubernetes-in-Docker)
From 1 comment
Kind (Kubernetes-in-Docker) is already around and it is somewhat of a niche use case. Minikube also exists to satisfy most of the use cases for single-node clusters on a…
gatherhunterer on HN
Minikube
From 1 comment
Kind (Kubernetes-in-Docker) is already around and it is somewhat of a niche use case. Minikube also exists to satisfy most of the use cases for single-node clusters on a…
gatherhunterer on HN
Rancher
From 1 comment
Kind (Kubernetes-in-Docker) is already around and it is somewhat of a niche use case. Minikube also exists to satisfy most of the use cases for single-node clusters on a…
gatherhunterer on HN
hyperctl
From 1 comment
Nice project. A related plug: For locally-run VMs, I can do `./hyperctl.sh install net dhcp hosts image master node1 node2` and be on local multi-node k8s on Hyperkit, in, I…
ypcx on HN