From Zero to Hero: HA k3s Cluster with Kubevip & Ansible

[@wyo2151]

super useful!! thanks

[@zombiewolf007]

Hey there, I loved this video, very cool stuff and thank you for making it. I'm admittedly a n00b to all of this while building it from scratch, although I've separately had to support each of these systems in the past mostly for break/fix stuff and never really "working" within each system in an interconnected way. I'm building my own home lab with Proxmox now and I want to build my own local Gitlab and runner...so my n00b question is this, please: Is it going to be difficult for me to setup the local gitlab to connect to this new K3S cluster and have it work the same as you showed at the end of this video? Is there any documentation you could maybe point me to, please? Thanks in advance. No worries if youre too busy. Take care.

[@brockhard]

Hey thank you!!! I would recommend using public gitlab and then just hosting your own gitlab runner. I'm thinking that's what I should do next. This way the gitlab runner uses a runner token you make in gitlab and then it can run jobs for you private gitlab group and since it's local in your environment you can have it access some services you host. I use it to deploy local DNS record with terraform on my pihole.

[@brockhard]

I think I have a video deploying the runner in docker and connecting it to your gitlab group. If you wanna deploy the runner in kunernetes you would helm install it instead of the way in my video

[@zombiewolf007]

@@brockhard okay awesome, I'll try that out next with public gitlab. and thanks a ton for the fast reply! Last question for you, maybe I'll figure it out soon. This is my first time doing anything like this as I mentioned so I'm sure I'm missing something simple, but even GPT4 isnt helping me find the root cause lol... When I try to run "make main-cluster", I get this output: $ make main-cluster ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts.yml playbooks/main_cluster.yml ERROR! Attempting to decrypt but no vault secrets found Do I need to create a new vault secrets file or something? Thanks once more.

[@zombiewolf007]

@@brockhard Thanks for your fast response! :) I'll definitely try that. DOH! I also answered my other question I was going to ask... which was I couldnt get the make command or playbooks to work for the life of me... I had to rename "vault-template.yml" to just vault.yml and that got things going finally. Awesome script!

[@christopherpeterson6004]

Awesome! I would like to know if it would be viable to deploy 3-5 node cluster across two XCP-NG hosts so that if we have to service one of the hosts: k3s can keep running. I've seen it done on Proxmox with a low powered "witness" like a raspberry pi or mini PC. I'm building a Wazuh-indexer cluster which uses opensearch for a SIEM.

[@Kanakarao-gk4tz]

need more

[@wolfbyte1555]

Repo dead?

[@brockhard]

@@wolfbyte1555 re doing my git repos and need update this video description. Will do it soon. Trying to get back into making new vids. Doing a new blog/docs site too

[@wolfbyte1555]

@@brockhard cheers! Looking forward to it! Thanks!

[@Patrick76791]

@@brockhard waiting for the code too :)