Automated home k3s cluster
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LarryGFer · 2023-09-30 02:27

Hi everyone,
For the last couple of months I've been working on a repo to create a
k3s cluster and deploy the services I wanted to use on a day-to-day
basis. I took it as a chance to learn Kubernetes and hone my terraform
and ansible, I'm using ansible to install k3s and configure the nodes
and a mix of Terraform and ArgoCD to deploy the apps.
With that said, I think I got a little carried away... initially my
goal was to just have the services up and running, but I broke it so
many times that I decided to try to automate as much as I could, and
then I tried to make it so simple all of my friends could use it at
home, I might have ended with something (I think) easy to deploy but
hard to maintain. Nevertheless, I am happy with what I have so far and
I'm sharing it here hoping I can get some feedback, suggestions or
just make someone's life easier. If you have the time or you're
looking for a side project please give it a look and tell me what you
think, I could use an extra pair of hands, especially with
documentation since English is not my first language and I've been
trying to make the docs as comprehensible as possible but I'm already
familiar with it so I will always be extremely biased and will
subconsciously avoid certain paths because I know they might fail.
With that being said, try it if you're interested, I'll gladly address
any issues and cover them in the docs, or if anyone has any
interesting suggestion I'm willing to try them out, since I can't
think of anyting else to add atm. Feel free to clone, fork or just
submit a PR if you think something is missing or if you have a better
way of doing things.

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desqviewX · 2023-09-30 14:23

Hi, while this is really awesome of you, there are literally *dozens*
of projects that already deploy k3s and even k8s. If you want to
improve your project, I'd look at some of those. There are 2 or 3 that
I know of that use Ansible, so you might want to start there.

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LarryGFer · 2023-09-30 15:37

Thanks for the tip, could you point me to some of those to see if I
can draw inspiration from there?