So… I got some more hardware in the form of rock64 boards. One to replace my old first-gen raspbery pi which is barely enough to keep up as a pihole ad-blocker. The other I was adding to my k8s cluster, so it’s actually a cluster with more than one node. Thing is, microk8s isn’t micro enough to run on the rock64 board, so I went to another k8s distribution that everyone online seems to approve of: Rancher’s K3s. It’s super light and runs just fine on my new node. K3s was a breeze to set up with their install script, but I still automated that process with some ansible code so I could spin up a cluster with a single command. The major pain in the but is I had to switch from metallb to using an ingress controller. First I used the bundled Traefik ingress controller but it seems to not work well with concourse UI. Probably due to buffering or something, but I couldn’t figure out how to fix it so I switched to the tried and tested nginx ingress.
After some use, K3s seems like a better distribution than MicroK8s for a homelab kubernetes cluster on baremetal.
