k3sup ('ketchup')
Dev tools
cluster bootstrap
SHOW HN2020
67points
31comments
#895of 3,028 in 2020
Top 30%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
1 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 16 comments about the project. Thread score -0.19.
Idea: 1 for, 1 against
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What people liked
Useful for a quick local test or learning cluster
From 1 comment
Most of the kubernetes clusters are deployed with EKS, GKE or digital ocean or other managed providers, none of them are bootstraped, you dont have to know how to install…
anaganisk on HN
Objections
Kubernetes adds complexity and too many tools to manage
From 3 comments
If you need an automated tool to set something up, that's a problem in my book. From someone who understands k8s, but doesn't have much practical knowledge of it, the amount of…
lykr0n on HNYou're talking about Linux desktop, no? It's apples and oranges because I assume we're talking about maintaining production systems here. k8s is a mess IMO. It's a giant…
0xFACEFEED on HNI don't understand all this angst. In a well run infrastructure, Kubernetes basically just boils down to a new config file to describe some proxy rewrite rules, and how much RAM…
shockinglytrue on HN
Name is confusing and misspelled
From 2 comments
This is getting ridiculous. Ketchup is only 3 letters longer and where the hell does the s come from? If you expect my to pronounce it ketchup then spell it correctly. Otherwise…
choward on HNAbsolutely. I cannot stand these abbreviations, because they are optimizing for ease of typing rather than ease of reading.
MereInterest on HN
Questions
What is kubeconfig and how do beginners get started
From 1 comment
"light-weight utility to get from zero to KUBECONFIG" -- what is kubeconfig? Here I am a total n00b in Kubernetes, hoping to get a clear path for learning it as an app dev. I…
wiradikusuma on HN
Alternatives named
minikube, minishift, CDK and CRC
From 1 comment
DISCLAIMER: I work for Red Hat Consulting as an OpenShift/Kubernetes consultant. You might want to try minikube [0], minishift [1], CDK [2] or CRC [3]. You'll want to have a…
oso2k on HN
Kind
From 1 comment
I would recommend Kind instead of any of these tools. It's the best local k8s evaluation tool I have found yet. We use it in our projects for local development too.
harpratap on HN
Kubespray
From 1 comment
> are there people who find vanilla/handcrafted k8s okay? Yes, we do. > Is there an "Arch K8s" distro? Kubernetes the hard way is pretty much Arch > is there an Ubuntu of k8s…
harpratap on HN
Ansible
From 1 comment
Could this not be done -- perhaps more easily -- with Ansible?
dreamcompiler on HN