Guide to Setting Up a Small Self-Managed Kubernetes Cluster on NixOS
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Summary
The article details a technical guide for setting up a small, self-managed Kubernetes cluster on NixOS. The author, experienced with managed Kubernetes services, explores what a minimal multi-node Kubernetes installation looks like for smaller-scale use cases like blue-green deployments. The content focuses on practical implementation rather than enterprise-level redundancy and self-healing features, aiming to understand the basics of self-managed Kubernetes at a smaller scale.
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· 4 pulledKubernetes is a complex piece of technology that abstracts away many system administration tasks, but does also solve and automate some processes useful at a smaller scale, like blue-green deployments.
Having administered managed Kubernetes for a while now, I wanted to find out what a self-managed, small-but-multi-node Kubernetes install looks like.
Most of the non-Kubernetes machines I manage are individual machines, or single database + multiple workers.
For this step I'm not really interested in much more than that, like making everything redundant, self-healing, etc. I just want to introduce...
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