Hi all!

I have a couple of months to create and deploy a small cluster for running docker containers.

The cluster will consist of 3 master nodes and some workers. When it is ready, it will consist of about 15 servers.

I have little experience with Docker (managing some containers on my home server), I have spent the last 4 or 5 weeks studying and testing with Kubernetes and I think it’s a little overkill for what it’s going to take. You run the risk of adding unnecessary complexity.

I am seeing that instead Docker Swarm seems easier to set up and manage.

To consider that I will be on my own to manage it.

What do you think?

Thanks!

  • @bananessOP
    1•2 years ago

    Thanks for the reply!

    I also have a background as Linux Sysadmin but barely a couple of years.

    I have managed to get a Kubernets cluster up and running but I have difficult setting up containers. The Classic “whoami” works flawless by Traefik for example, but doing the same for Portainer seems like impossibile for me right now, going crazy :D

    I’m i choosing a difficult path? Is it possibile to have a good K8s cluster running nice without traefik?

    Thanks!

    • rs5th
      3•2 years ago

      I use ingress-ngnix for all my ingress controllers, I’ve only messed with Traefik a bit in Kubernetes and it felt like it was fighting me the whole time.

      • @bananessOP
        2•2 years ago

        Nice to know that I’m not the only one having this experience