The FASTEST Way to run Kubernetes at Home - k3s Ansible Automation - Kubernetes in your HomeLab

Setting up kubernetes is hard. That's why we made it easy. Today we'll set up a High Availability K3s cluster using etcd, MetalLB, kube-vip, and Ansible. We'll automate the entire process giving you an easy, repeatable way to create a k3s cluster that you can run at home in a few minutes.

This is a great way to set up Kubernetes in your HomeLab.

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You can find the repo here
https://github.com/techno-tim/k3s-ans...

Videos mentioned:

Ansible Setup Video
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Proxmox Cloud Image Video
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Thank you to Jeff Geerling for the video clip and his work on Ansible + K3s!
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Thank you for forking and adding kube-vip support to the k3s Ansible Playbook!
https://github.com/212850a/k3s-ansible

This will also be included in the documentation
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00:00 - Intro
00:58 - Micro Center Advertisement
01:49 - How Did I get here?
03:28 - What did I automate with Ansible and k3s?
04:23 - k3s Load Balancers and Architecture
05:58 - What is the architecture
06:06 - Creating machines
06:36 - Configuring Ansible Playbook
11:03 - Setting Hosts
11:34 - Running the automation
12:31 - Verifying the k3s install
13:31 - Deploying a workload to k3s
13:53 - Deploying a Service + Load Balancer
15:25 - Testing kube-vip and k3s control plane
16:31 - Tearing down k3s
17:15 - What problems did we solve?
18:09 - Stream Highlight - "If it's not DNS, it's a firewall rule"

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