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0 pointssilviogutierrez5y ago0 comments

So terraform is a higher-order, meta-Kubernetes. It's very rarely used, but who provisions the cluster itself? That's terraform.

So terraform creates the cluster, DNS and VPC. Then k8s runs pretty much everything.

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mfer5y ago

How are you deploying the workloads into the cluster? Manual kubectl or Helm, GitOps with something like Flux, something else?

wikibob5y ago

Spinnaker. Huge. Clunky. But excellent if you can justify it.

silviogutierrezOP5y ago

Alas, still rely on bash for that. Practically a one liner.

Mainly just kustomize piped into kube apply.

But, but, but. Having to a create a one-off database migration script imperatively.

ngcc_hk5y ago

Ooh!

Sherl5y ago

Some others are Tekton, Argo, KNative You could also use Jenkins with K8s deploy plugin (from MS Azure Devops team)

pvorb5y ago

Why would you want to provision your own k8s cluster, if you can use EKS, AKS or similar?

silviogutierrezOP5y ago

I don't. I use a cloud cluster. But that still has to be provisioned? You need to choose size, node pool, VPC, region, etc.

cure5y ago

EKS, GKE and the like have a number of limitations. For example: they can be pretty far behind in the version of K8S they support (GKE is at 1.15 currently, EKS at 1.16; K8S 1.18 was released in at the end of March this year.

kissgyorgy5y ago

One example I worked on myself: when you need to train lots of ML models and need lots of video cards. Those would be damn expensive in the cloud!

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mfer5y ago

How are you deploying the workloads into the cluster? Manual kubectl or Helm, GitOps with something like Flux, something else?

wikibob5y ago

Spinnaker. Huge. Clunky. But excellent if you can justify it.

silviogutierrezOP5y ago

Alas, still rely on bash for that. Practically a one liner.

Mainly just kustomize piped into kube apply.

But, but, but. Having to a create a one-off database migration script imperatively.

ngcc_hk5y ago

Ooh!

Sherl5y ago

Some others are Tekton, Argo, KNative You could also use Jenkins with K8s deploy plugin (from MS Azure Devops team)

pvorb5y ago

Why would you want to provision your own k8s cluster, if you can use EKS, AKS or similar?

silviogutierrezOP5y ago

I don't. I use a cloud cluster. But that still has to be provisioned? You need to choose size, node pool, VPC, region, etc.

cure5y ago

kissgyorgy5y ago

One example I worked on myself: when you need to train lots of ML models and need lots of video cards. Those would be damn expensive in the cloud!

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse