Which Linux Distribution for Kubernetes/miniKube

Also you can install both on your laptop too to have a nuke zone, i.e. where you feel free to go nuts and then wipe out without nuking the lab too:

I am interested in this as well to get going with Kubernetes and Kasten stuff.  👀

So if you want bare metal over running this on my daily driver machine, you’ve a few options

OpenShift single node - sign up for an account with red hat, get 60 days trial licence from an install, use the assisted installer (liveCD) to built your node from scratch. https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.15/installing/installing_sno/install-sno-installing-sno.html

Rancher https://medium.com/@gregory.grubbs/putting-up-a-rancher-kubernetes-cluster-on-bare-metal-dce3b8ac2a4a

Or Talos Linux, which I think is getting really popular atm, and probably what I’d look at first. https://www.talos.dev/

@michaelcade has been using Talos for his homelab at the moment as well, https://github.com/MichaelCade/Kargo

Ciao, Jurgen Kubernetes Klopp!

Talos for me! 

@michaelcade is sporting his Kubecon look!! :) 

ah @k00laidIT you knew I was a Kubernetes junkie anyways and now you have enabled me 😂 even more. I don’t know why I had avoided or not wandered into Kubevirt before. The problem with Kubernetes is that it is like being on a street with candy stores on both sides, this when you are trying to stick to a diet. 

Anyways, better than drinking beer. I will do a few posts on kubevirt in the near future and see what I can squeeze out of my lego lab. I played around with Rancher Desktop yesterday but as @michaelcade and @saintdle said Talos should be more fun and will try a multi node cluster with it as well. 

Maybe you can compare Beer to KubeVirt and make it your thing? a connoisseur of alcohol and cloud native.

could leverage the brain’s eBPF so right in its Kernel. Does cilium for EBPF still leverage a “sidebar” ;)  

One important thing to remember if you do this on K3S (and I imagine Talos as well, I will try that later) if you want to use software virtualization emulation then you need to set it in the kubevirt CR:

spec.configuration.developerConfiguration.useEmulation to true

kubectl edit -n kubevirt kubevirt kubevirt

and add 

spec:
    ...
    configuration:
    developerConfiguration:
        useEmulation: true

or before you start

export VERSION=$(curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubevirt-prow/release/kubevirt/kubevirt/stable.txt)

wget https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/download/${VERSION}/kubevirt-cr.yaml

and then edit the kubevirt-cr.yaml before applying.

I will do a quick post on getting it going on a small 3 node k3s cluster in a bit.