K8s

After setting up my lab environment in the previous article, I’ve now also set up the Kubernetes cluster itself, with kubeadm as the setup tool and Cilium as the CNI plugin for networking. Here, I will describe why I chose the tools I did, and how I initialized the cluster, as well as how to remove the cluster when necessary. Tools choice Before setting up a cluster, several choices need to be made. The first one in the case of Kubernetes is which distribution to use. ...

So, as I mentioned in my last article, I want to give Kubernetes another try after HashiCorp’s recent license change. This also gives me a chance to put the lab back in Homelab, as it has mostly been a Homeprod environment - not much experimentation going on there, just slow, intentional incremental changes here and there. But my Homeprod env is not really suited for housing a Kubernetes cluster. It mostly consists of Raspberry Pis. Don’t get me wrong, it is serving me well - but running two parallel clusters with two different orchestrators on the same HW is probably not a good idea. 😉 ...