[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!
| 
| 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.
  | 
  | 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.
  | 
  | 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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