I've recently been working on an Ansible project to declaratively build a 4 node Kubernetes cluster. I feel like it's getting to be stable and I would love some testers and some ideas for how it can be improved.
My goal in all of this is to help get people started with running Kubernetes in their bare metal homelab environments as I feel like the learning curve to create a fully functional environment is quite steep at the moment. Especially since the Kubernetes ecosystem is so fragmented.
The project is currently capable of configuring the virtual machines through cloud-init and provisioning them with a custom networking definition so you can put them on specific VLANs. It uses Calico as the CNI and has support for provisioning an array of additional deployments such as an NFS Storage Class, MetalLB Load Balancer, NGINX-Ingress Controller, and DataDog Stateful Set.
If you're interested in contributing, there are two big things I could use help with right now.
1. Adding multi-node support as I only have a single Proxmox compute node.
2. Working out how to dynamically build the MetalbLB configuration file based on whether the user wants to use BGP or Layer 2 and how many Address Pools the user wishes to configure.
More to come in the future, as soon as I better understand what the community is looking for. :)
PS: Here is another repository containing my other Ansible projects for deploying common home server applications to Kubernetes. Currently I have support for Unifi Controller, Plex Media Server, Deluge, Radarr, & Sonarr. All of which work well with this deployment method. https://github.com/zimmertr/Kubernetes-Manifests
I've recently been working on an Ansible project to declaratively build a 4 node Kubernetes cluster. I feel like it's getting to be stable and I would love some testers and some ideas for how it can be improved.
My goal in all of this is to help get people started with running Kubernetes in their bare metal homelab environments as I feel like the learning curve to create a fully functional environment is quite steep at the moment. Especially since the Kubernetes ecosystem is so fragmented.
The project is currently capable of configuring the virtual machines through cloud-init and provisioning them with a custom networking definition so you can put them on specific VLANs. It uses Calico as the CNI and has support for provisioning an array of additional deployments such as an NFS Storage Class, MetalLB Load Balancer, NGINX-Ingress Controller, and DataDog Stateful Set.
If you're interested in contributing, there are two big things I could use help with right now.
1. Adding multi-node support as I only have a single Proxmox compute node. 2. Working out how to dynamically build the MetalbLB configuration file based on whether the user wants to use BGP or Layer 2 and how many Address Pools the user wishes to configure.
More to come in the future, as soon as I better understand what the community is looking for. :)
PS: Here is another repository containing my other Ansible projects for deploying common home server applications to Kubernetes. Currently I have support for Unifi Controller, Plex Media Server, Deluge, Radarr, & Sonarr. All of which work well with this deployment method. https://github.com/zimmertr/Kubernetes-Manifests