[INTPenis]

We have similar backgrounds, and I totally agree with your k8s sentiment.

But I wonder what this solves?

Because I stopped abusing k8s and started using more container hosts with quadlets instead, using Ansible or Terraform depending on what the situation calls for.

It works just fine imho. The CI/CD pipeline triggers a podman auto-update command, and just like that all containers are running the latest version.

So what does uncloud add to this setup?

[psviderski]

Great setup! Where Uncloud helps is when you need containers across multiple machines to talk to each other.

Your setup sounds like single-node or nodes that don't need to discover each other. If you ever need multi-node with service-to-service communication, that's where stitching together Ansible + Terraform + quadlets + some networking layer starts to get tedious. Uncloud tries to make that part simple out of the box.

You also get the reverse proxy (Caddy) that automatically reconfigures depending on what containers are running on machines. You just deploy containers and it auto-discovers them. If a container crashes, the configuration is auto-updated to remove the faulty container from the list of upstreams.

Plus a single CLI you run locally or on CI to manage everything, distribute images, stream logs. A lot of convenience that I'm putting together to make the user experience more enjoyable.

But if you don't need that, keep doing what works.

[INTPenis]

It's starting to sound a lot like k8s to me. :D

Technically I could allow my web proxy to discover my services today already, but I refuse to have Traefik (in my case) running as the same user as my services. I prefer to only let them talk over TCP/IP and configure them dynamically with Ansible instead.

It always amazed me that people used that feature in Traefik or Caddy, because it essentially requires your web proxy to have container access to all your other services. It seems a bit intimate to me, but maybe I'm old school.

[lifty]

Uncloud seems much easier to manage than writing your own ansible or terraform.