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kubeadm-playbook

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Mostly questions and neutral comments

1 positive, 5 neutral or mixed, 2 critical. Score -0.09

LikedUseful for on-prem Kubernetes users lacking resources

ObjectedHeapster is outdated and should be replaced by metrics-server

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Shown by researchiteng on Nov 1, 2019. Click the card to turn it over.

122points

31comments

#379of 2,195 in 2019

Top 18%of 2019 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

1 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score -0.09.

Idea: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against

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Heapster is outdated and should be replaced by metrics-server
From 1 comment
- Why is heapster in this? Let it die already... I feel bad every time I have to deploy that old rotten piece of code because a lot of our dashboards still use those metrics.
  sascha_sl on HN
Kubernetes is overkill for small deployments
From 1 comment
- I’ve been trying hard to find time to setup and play with a Kubernetes cluster for learning purposes. Considering it is built with Go, why is such a aggregation playbook needed?…
  reacharavindh on HN

Add metrics-server, service mesh and CNCF database operators
From 1 comment
- Any plans to switch to more commonly used add-ons? Maybe like using metrics-server, Prometheus, grafana, and alert manager out of the box? Would also be cool to see other CNCF…
  gravypod on HN
Basic security hardening such as non-root containers
From 1 comment
- i wonder if it includes basic security hardening. like disable containers running as root. etc ?
  je42 on HN

Is there a use case for on-prem over managed cloud Kubernetes?
From 1 comment
- Getting (aka renting) a k8s from a cloud vendor is probably the most common case, but does not cover everyone's scenarios => hence this project. Along the years we actively…
  researchiteng on HN
Why use k3s instead of AKS or other options?
From 1 comment
- what are the benefits of using k3s in Azure as opposed to AKS?
  dimitar on HN

Rancher
From 1 comment
- An alternative is Rancher. It can provision clusters with the major cloud providers' managed Kubernetes services as well as with virtually any infrastructure. I wrote a post on…
  SkyLinx on HN
Sugarkube
From 1 comment
- Sugarkube [1] is an open source alternative to using Ansible for working with Kubernetes clusters. Because it's focussed squarely on Kubernetes, it runs much faster (it's written…
  skboosh on HN
k3s
From 1 comment
- This is excellent in terms of functionality, but I would recommend looking at https://k3s.io if you want a simple, lean k8s setup. (I have a set of setup scripts for Azure at…
  rcarmo on HN