Stories Tag: k3d

Hello-world with Terraform, k3d and kpt | by Ben Fraser | Feb, 2021 | Medium

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Short, high-level tutorial for setting up a Kubernetes cluster locally, using Terraform and k3d, then deploying a simple hello-world application. Clone the source repo and navigate to it: Input “yes” when prompted to accept the terraform apply Take note of the outputs k3d_cluster_ip and k3d_host_lb_port, as these will be used to access the cluster later on. Use the ip and port from the Terraform outputs…

Kubernetes (K8S) Cluster with CI/CD pipeline — Infrastructure as Code | by Hareesh Polla | Feb, 2021 | Medium

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Kubernetes(k8s), DevOps, and CI/CD became buzz words and not limited to Big Clouds anymore. Thanks to projects like MicroK8S from Canonical, K3S from Rancher Labs (now part of SUSE), Kind, and MiniKube. These can be deployed on the development systems for learning and testing. Some support Production-ready High Availability Clusters setup on IoT/Edge devices. This article is not a comparison between tools, rather as an…

Configuring Rancher k3d for Enterprise Environments | by Kasey Weirich | Jan, 2021 | Medium

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Welcome! You have landed on this page for a good reason, probably because — like myself — you are going down the path of exploring options for deploying Kubernetes cluster(s) for edge/dev/test/learning purposes and came across k3d. My exploration progression went something like this: Docker Desktop with Kubernetes enabled, Minikube, KinD, and then k3d. All of this on Windows 10 with WSL2 enabled (Ubuntu 20.04.1…

K3S + K3D = K8S : a new perfect match for dev and test | by Yann Albou | Jan,...

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Working with Kubernetes on a local machine when you are a Dev or an Ops is not as easy as we could think. So, how to easily create a local Kubernetes cluster that would meet these needs ? At SoKube we heavily use k3d and k3s for these purposes. This blog post was originaly posted on the Sokube blog post More than a year ago…

k3d — Kubernetes & Istio (Service Mesh) | by Brett Mostert | Dec, 2020 | Medium

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As I mentioned in my previous article ‘k3d — Kubernetes Up and Running Quickly’, k3d uses the Traefik ingress controller by default, in this article, we will explore the following… Disclaimer: I am still learning the ins and outs of Kubernetes and this is my first time working with Istio, I write these articles to learn and to hopefully help others as well, comments and…

k3d — Kubernetes Up and Running Quickly | by Brett Mostert | Dec, 2020 | Medium

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If you have ever set up Kubernetes the Hard Way (and you totally should, if only for the learning experience), you will know that it is a pain, and you do not want to do that every time you need a cluster for testing or development… There are plenty of tools, k3d is awesome and lightweight as it simply wraps k3s. For more, carry on…

Rancher 2.5 on your Windows 10 laptop in 5 min | by Jason Yee | Nov, 2020 | Medium

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This article shows how to set up a minimal Kubernetes dev env in ~5 min with Rancher Cluster Manager on your Windows 10 laptop using k3d to set up a k3s cluster. Read about more to do after getting Rancher here. tl;dr — get Docker Desktop & Chocolatey and copy pasta the gist at the bottom Seriously, that’s it! We’ll use chocolatey to help, but…

Kubernetes & Rancher 2.5 on your Windows 10 laptop with k3d and k3s | by Jason Yee | Nov, 2020...

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This article shows how to set up a minimal Kubernetes dev env with Rancher Cluster Manager on your Windows 10 laptop using k3d to set up a k3s cluster. tl;dr install Docker Desktop & Chocolatey and run the gist at the end This is an update to https://jyeee.medium.com/rancher-2-4-14c31af12b7a but using Docker and k3d instead of multipass Seriously, that’s it! We’ll use chocolatey to help, but…

Managing multiple clusters with ArgoCD in Azure/k3s secured w/ Traefik&Let’s Encrypt | by Alessandro Vozza | Cooking with Azure |...

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Easily deploy ArgoCD in Azure to manage multiple clusters in a GitOps way. Code available at https://github.com/ams0/argocd-azure-k3s-traefik I heard about ArgoCD many times (recently from my friends at Fullstaq here) but never came around to kick its tires until now. If you don’t know, ArgoCD is a platform for declarative continuous deployment of Kubernetes applications, and it’s becoming quickly a very popular (and now it’s…