[HN Gopher] Mirantis Unveils K0smotron: An Open-Source Kubernete...
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       Mirantis Unveils K0smotron: An Open-Source Kubernetes Management
       Project
        
       Author : CrankyBear
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2023-08-04 16:15 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | baz00 wrote:
       | I manage a few rather large k8s clusters during the day and I
       | don't understand what this is or why I'd need that without
       | reading too much. If I read too much I switch off. This is a side
       | effect of the emotional damage from managing a few rather large
       | k8s clusters during the day.
        
       | jauntywundrkind wrote:
       | This is great. It's pretty easy to standup a Kubernetes cluster
       | on bare metal these days. Projects like k0s are for exactly that:
       | running Kube (cluster or single nodes) on bare metal. But ideally
       | if you're a mid or large size entity you want to be able to stand
       | up multiple clusters, for different teams or projects, to have
       | some isolation. Cattle not pets, for clusters. Moving from a one
       | to many mode.
       | 
       | So k0smotron is a way to be able to stand-up/upgrade/manage many
       | k0s bare-metal clusters, via Kubernetes itself. Clusters are -
       | like everything in Kubernetes - just resources (defined by CRDs).
       | K0smotron can go setup & manage Kubernetes clusters on the bare-
       | metal nodes it's given, via typical kubectl operations.
       | 
       | Personally I think this is really great. It's making me consider
       | switching off my own Ansible-based k3s installs. I already run a
       | lot of small single-node clusters here & there, and a couple very
       | modest bigger clusters, and it feels like I could consolidate my
       | management footprint considerably by using this fleet-of-clusters
       | operators.
        
       | blueflow wrote:
       | If you need to manage your Kubernetes Clusters managing your
       | Docker containers managing your applications dependencies, yo
       | dawg.
        
       | mkl95 wrote:
       | Next up: An Open-Source Mirantis Management Project - built by
       | management tool managers, for management tool managers
        
         | adolph wrote:
         | 6 months later: Open-Source Mirantis Management Project Pro -
         | pay us for this thing we got you hooked on while it was free
         | 
         | https://medium.com/k8slens/lens-6-released-vision-for-the-fu...
        
       | tekla wrote:
       | A K8s control plane inside K8s? There is not enough alcohol on
       | this planet to support this
        
         | baz00 wrote:
         | Better fire up the crack pipe instead!
        
           | zeropoint46 wrote:
           | looks like I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue
        
       | nickstinemates wrote:
       | The article, and the project page[1] don't do a very good job of
       | explaining WHY the project exists. It definitely explains what it
       | is (an operator for a control plane,) but so what?
       | 
       | What can I do now that I could not do before? What makes it novel
       | or innovative?
       | 
       | 1: https://k0smotron.io
        
       | otabdeveloper4 wrote:
       | Sorry, I'm way past the "kubernetes fatigue" point by now.
        
         | donutshop wrote:
         | Kfatigue - A VC backed CNCF incubating project designed to
         | manage your fatigue. No Ops required.
        
           | baz00 wrote:
           | Disclaimer: may require the inhalation of YAML.
        
       | sontek wrote:
       | Whats the difference between this and vcluster
       | (https://github.com/loft-sh/vcluster)?
        
         | jauntywundrkind wrote:
         | Vcluster is virutalizing a single cluster, it looks like. The
         | use case here is actually making many different clusters, each
         | with their own dedicated hardware, I believe.
        
       | speedgoose wrote:
       | > Mirantis, the well-regarded developer-centric company
       | 
       | {{Citation needed}}
        
         | pengaru wrote:
         | For those who've never heard of Mirantis, this might ring a
         | bell:
         | 
         | https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/13/mirantis-acquires-docker-e...
        
       | semi-extrinsic wrote:
       | I've never used Kubernetes in anger, for the stuff I do, I manage
       | just fine with bare-metal hardware running services with systemd.
       | 
       | The (IMO very funny) comments here about k8s causing emotional
       | damage, human rights violations and need to take drugs have
       | reassured me that I should stick to my bare-metal. It is the way.
        
         | mardifoufs wrote:
         | Kubernetes is just fine. Don't use it for your personal
         | projects, or for stuff that can easily be managed with systemd
         | services. For those, it's probably overkill. But k8s is not
         | some horrible, soul damaging software either. It's actually
         | amazing at what it does.
        
           | baz00 wrote:
           | Give it a couple more cluster upgrades worth of YAML
           | wrangling and you'll turn rabid like the rest of us.
        
         | baz00 wrote:
         | That's going to leave a big hole in your CV/resume where there
         | could be a CNCF word salad to make the recruitment and HR
         | drones drool.
         | 
         | They need to know if you can write a custom k8s controller in
         | Clojure to generate cronjobs that run k8s jobs that call AWS
         | lambada to ingest data from elastic cakehole and inject it into
         | substandard-IA random availability zone iceberg storage while a
         | Annoying Notification is triggered via ANS to a Rickety Queue
         | Storage sent to someone via Shaky Email Service that eventually
         | ends up in someone's Junk Mail folder in O365 but contains a
         | link to the insecure bucket with the entire company's payroll
         | data in it.
         | 
         | Btw if anyone wants to hire me to wire stuff up like this and
         | help you piss away money you don't need into Bezos' pockets,
         | please get in contact.
         | 
         | Edit: incidentally this is why I'm breakdown level done with
         | all this shit and am going to do something else with my life.
        
           | cmdrk wrote:
           | Custom controllers? Deprecated and will be removed in v1.30!
           | Please switch to the v1alpha1/ManagedManipulators API (which
           | won't be stable until v1.35)
           | 
           | Cronjobs? Those will be gone too in a few versions. You
           | really should be keeping up with the time-based task working
           | group!
           | 
           | and personally, I think elastic cakehole is not the right
           | tool for the right job. You should really switch to open
           | cakehole by Amazon.
        
       | predictabl3 wrote:
       | This just seems like Gardener? https://gardener.cloud/ No
       | affiliation but they built what I would've built and I've worked
       | on enough Kubernetes deployers/orchestrators that it could be
       | considered a Human Rights violation.
        
       | teepo wrote:
       | Multi cluster management that separates the control plane from
       | the worker plane. So it's like a RYO managed K8s service. Now you
       | just need to get a full time SRE team to take care of what Red
       | Hat, GCP, AWS, IBM Cloud SRE teams do for you today in any of the
       | managed container platforms.
        
         | ushakov wrote:
         | Sounds similiar to Karmada, which we use at EdgeNode.com
         | 
         | https://karmada.io/
        
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