[HN Gopher] Cubernetes
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Cubernetes
Author : JustinGarrison
Score : 91 points
Date : 2022-07-06 18:19 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| imiric wrote:
| Awesome build!
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| I always liked the Cube form factor. Having the internals so
| easily accessible is great design.
|
| The LP-179 motherboard is interesting as well. I've been looking
| for a NUC replacement, but the newer models have lost the small
| form factor, and this looks like it might be a good alternative.
|
| The Pico-ITX standard is not popular though. It was introduced by
| VIA way back in 2007, and hasn't had much industry traction. Case
| in point: I can't find a good case for it. Can someone recommend
| one? Or maybe I could retrofit my ancient 4"x4" NUC for it...
| JustinGarrison wrote:
| You might be interested in the latte panda boards [1] or up
| boards [2]. They're cheaper than the LP-179 but also less
| powerful and customizable. However they do have standard cases
| and are more popular than the LP-179.
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| 1:
| https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lattepanda3delta/lattep...
| 2: https://up-board.org/#
| INTPenis wrote:
| I can't deny how cute this is but I just made a 4 node kubernetes
| cluster in a drawer with 2x Asus PN51, 1x Asus PN50, and an Intel
| Nuc i3 for MUCH LESS money than 6000 dollars. Jesus...
| nine_k wrote:
| But it's like saying that you've just bought a Toyota Corolla
| that runs as fast as a 26-wheel limo [1] while also being
| rather cheaper and easier to drive.
|
| With so many LEDs all over the place, computation is not the
| point of the "cubernetes" device.
|
| [1]: https://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/with-26-wheels-and-
| se...
| terrylhowe wrote:
| Extreme restomod!
| jeroenhd wrote:
| If anyone else feels like they're missing something: for me,
| Firefox's tracking protection blocked all the images.
|
| Pretty cool build, it's crazy how powerful compact computers have
| gotten!
| JustinGarrison wrote:
| Thanks for the info. I wasn't aware firefox would block the
| images. I don't have any specific tracking on the images, but
| I'll look into why that might be a problem.
| Fnoord wrote:
| Didn't block it for me, and I also use Firefox (with several
| addons and tracking protection). Only blocks the YouTube
| video. Neat stuff btw!
| LawnGnome wrote:
| I have enhanced tracking protection on and the images loaded OK
| for me, FWIW.
| debarshri wrote:
| In the spirit of naming kubernetes distributions, How about we
| call this k-1s?
| newfonewhodis wrote:
| Interesting project though it might be easier to just have 3-4
| Dell Optiplex Micros stacked. I've seen some decent ones go for
| ~$300 with 9th/10th gen chips and 8-16GB RAM each.
| JustinGarrison wrote:
| If you want a powerful and cheap cluster I recommend getting
| old enterprise desktops. They work great. I have a full post
| about options here (it's a bit old but still relevant)
| https://rothgar.medium.com/on-prem-development-kubernetes-cl...
| chewmieser wrote:
| I'd previously thought about using a Turing Pi board for this but
| never got around to it. Plus of course your limitation of not
| using ARM makes that a non-starter at the moment (and the
| official compute modules do not reach this level of performance
| but the Turing modules get close).
|
| Nice write-up and cool looking end result!
| babelfish wrote:
| What is the advantage of EKS Anywhere over vanilla k8s, k3s, k0s,
| etc?
| JustinGarrison wrote:
| I work on EKS Anywhere and familiar with those options but my
| answer will be biased
|
| EKS Anywhere provides a CLI, packaged Cluster API, and other
| tools (CNI, GitOps) on top of raw Kubernetes. K8s, k3s, k0s are
| binaries you have to manage and are similar to EKS Distro [1]
| which we publish and build on top of.
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| EKS Anywhere is designed to give you clusters you can manage
| long term using Cluster API and a full suite of tools for how
| we thing Kubernetes clusters should be run based on our
| experience running EKS. It is a closer comparison to Rancher's
| RKE or VMware Tanzu for provisioning clusters, but some
| features and implementation details are different.
|
| 1: https://distro.eks.amazonaws.com/
| speedgoose wrote:
| I was very surprised to see Amazon EKS on such a build, instead
| of K3s or similar, but I realised that the author works for AWS
| EKS.
| nine_k wrote:
| I heard Amazon instills an air of frugality in its employees.
|
| I'll take this demo EKS cluster as a warning of true AWS's
| costs.
| JustinGarrison wrote:
| Yep! I work on the EKS team so this build was designed to be an
| educational tool for EKS Anywhere and also really fun!
| 999900000999 wrote:
| Would love to retrofit some old GameCubes for a project like like
| this!
|
| This seems like, if a company could produce these at scale, a
| great alternative to AWS.
|
| It's scalable, just add cubes!
| itintheory wrote:
| This project uses EKS...
| Bombthecat wrote:
| > Total parts = $6310
|
| Wow,quit a hobby
| vipin-mohan wrote:
| This is exciting!
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