The new #kubernetes cluster is coming along. I have the networking figured out the way I want it, all on a private network away from prying eyes. Today I got the Ingress working with a hardware load balancer, and as soon as I get the certificate manager installed I can start moving some workloads. Then I’ll add Ceph and Stolon for HA file, object, and database and I can move nearly everything to the newer environment.

Learning #k3s has been interesting and not too involved. Most things work easily once you do a bit of research, and it’s lighter weight and easier to debug than full Kubernetes. It solves a challenging problem (how do I automate distributing, scheduling, and monitoring a diverse workload over a variety of nodes for security and availability). But it works well and the abstractions are stable.