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by oceanplexian
1615 days ago
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Yeah I’m with you. I run a rack at home with servers running a few applications orchestrated with a bit of Puppet, it’s 100x more reliable than K8s, I’m not having to do weird hacks to make persistent storage work, edit dozens of YAML files and run a whole host of dodgy control plane services. Sadly, I leaned this the hard way by setting up a 4-node k8s cluster and realizing bare-metal support is abysmal and the maintainers simply don’t care about you if you’re not running a cluster on AWS or GCP. Unfortunately my day job still involves k8s and people give me strange looks when I suggest metal so substantially less complex, cheaper, more performant, and easier to orchestrate and maintain. |
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A few months back I built a Nomad based cluster with Consul and was like: wow! This is super cool... but it's also expensive and complex.
I'm going to be building out the platform with an ALB, two EC2 Instances in an AutoScaling Group based on an AMI I bake with Ansible and Packer. I'll use Terraform for the entire infrastructure.
The release pipeline for content updates (it's an MkDocs/Material based book with videos blended in) will be me updating the AMI and firing off a `terraform apply`.
I won't be using Docker. I won't require or need an orchestration engine.
It's a static website delivered via a custom web server written in Go (as I need custom "Have you paid to view this content?" logic.) That's about as complex as it gets for now.
I'm actually looking forward to implementing it and watching as something so simple hopefully goes on to allow me to build and scale a business.