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  • koala@programming.devtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Best Practice IdeasEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I think Cloudflare Tunnels will require a different setup on k8s than on regular Linux hosts, but it’s such a popular service among self-hosters that I have little doubt that you’ll find a workable process.

    (And likely you could cheat, and set up a small Linux VM to “bridge” k8s and Cloudflare Tunnels.)

    Kubernetes is different, but it’s learnable. In my opinion, K8S only comes into its own in a few scenarios:

    • Really elastic workloads. If you have stuff that scales horizontally (uncommon), you really can tell Amazon to give you more Kubernetes nodes when load grows, and destroy the nodes when load goes down. But this is not really applicable for self hosting, IMHO.

    • Really clustered software. Setting up say a PostgreSQL cluster is a ton of work. But people create K8S operators that you feed a declarative configuration (I want so many replicas, I want backups at this rate, etc.) and that work out everything for you… in a way that works in all K8S implementations! This is also very cool, but I suspect that there’s not a lot of this in self-hosting.

    • Building SaaS platforms, etc. This is something that might be more reasonable to do in a self-hosting situation.

    Like the person you’re replying to, I also run Talos (as a VM in Proxmox). It’s pretty cool. But in the end, I only run there 4 apps I’ve written myself, so using K8S as a kind of SaaS… and another application, https://github.com/avaraline/incarnator, which is basically distributed as container images and I was too lazy to deploy in a more conventional way.

    I also do this for learning. Although I’m not a fan of how Docker Compose is becoming dominant in the self-hosting space, I have to admit it makes more sense than K8S for self-hosting. But K8S is cool and might get you a cool job, so by all means play with it- maybe you’ll have fun!

  • koala@programming.devtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Docker or Proxmox? Something else entirely?English
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    4 days ago

    Came in here to mention Incus if no one had.

    I love it. I have three “home production” servers running Proxmox, but mostly because Proxmox is one of very few LTS/comercially-supported ways to run Linux in a supported way with root (and everything else on ZFS). And while its web UI is still a bit clunky in places, it comes in handy some times.

    However, Incus automation is just… superior. incus launch --vm images:debian/13 foo, wait a few seconds then incus exec foo -- bash and I’m root on a console of a ready-to-go Debian VM. Without --vm, it’s a lightweight LXC container. And Ansible supports running commands through incus exec, so you can provision stuff WITHOUT BOTHERING TO SET UP ANYTHING.

    AND, it works remotely without fuss, so I can set up an Incus remote on a beefy server and spawn VMs nearly transparently. + incus file pull|push to transfer files.

    I’m kinda pondering scripting removal of the Proxmox bits from a Proxmox install, so that I just keep their ZFS support and run Incus on top.