Hi Everyone, I am starting a new project where I b...
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quaint-translator-50744
06/02/2021, 12:18 PMHi Everyone, I am starting a new project where I basically need to deploy the “equivalent” of a bunch of REST (micro-) services, one or two databases an ingress-controller and kafka onto my k3s kubernetes cluster. Because I can choose to use the technology I want, I have decided to explore what it means to go “serverless”. Additionally, I want to use Pulumi as much as possible. I am a developer by trade, but had an active “devops”-role for over 5 years, with 24/7 on-call and all the shiny stuff. I basically want to accomplish what is shown in this tutorial https://www.pulumi.com/serverless/. Before I start, is this currently possible using Pulumi and a local k3s cluster?
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ambitious-father-68746
06/02/2021, 12:41 PMServerless is a bit of a misnomer, since there is still some infrastructure needed to run your code, but it's invisible to you. AWS, Azure and GCP have their own managed solutions to achieve that. For a local Kubernetes cluster you do have to worry and manage it yourself.
There are some solutions to have the same serverless computational capabilities on Kubernetes, but I don't think any of them are official, thus no Pulumi support.
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quaint-translator-50744
06/02/2021, 12:49 PMThank you @ambitious-father-68746, by “exploring serverless” I want to learn and understand for myself in how far I can shield or abstract the infrastructure away from my role as a developer. It is clear, that there is always infrastructure involved and in the end, everything runs on bare-metal. Due to our clients-nature, it is not possible to use any public clouds. I have to stay in a local environment and was hoping to find and use the same level of abstraction.
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ambitious-father-68746
06/02/2021, 12:52 PMI've been away from Kubernetes for a while now, but I remember that Kubeless being regarded as the go-to serverless framework for Kubernetes.
ambitious-father-68746
06/02/2021, 12:53 PMIf Pulumi handles Kubernetes objects OK, then it should be possible to achieve what you want.
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quaint-translator-50744
06/02/2021, 1:04 PMThanks for the hint with kubeless, I will do some research on it. But basically, I would write my own abstractions using Pulumi in case I stay with k3s by using the Kubernetes-plugin and so on. Is my understanding correct?
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brave-dawn-64711
06/02/2021, 1:34 PMI've done a little experiment in wrapping a terraform provider for kind:
https://github.com/pawelprazak/pulumi-kind/
brave-dawn-64711
06/02/2021, 1:34 PMjust an experiment right now so no packaged published
brave-dawn-64711
06/02/2021, 1:35 PMbut I've also used pulumi with regular kind
brave-dawn-64711
06/02/2021, 1:35 PMsuper simple to use
brave-dawn-64711
06/02/2021, 1:35 PM Copy code
kind create cluster --config kind.config.yamlbrave-dawn-64711
06/02/2021, 1:36 PMwith `kind.config.yaml`:
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kind: Cluster
apiVersion: <http://kind.x-k8s.io/v1alpha4|kind.x-k8s.io/v1alpha4>
nodes:
- role: control-plane
- role: worker
- role: workerbrave-dawn-64711
06/02/2021, 1:37 PMthen just point the provider to it:
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const kindContext = "kind-kind"
const kindProvider = new k8s.Provider(kindContext, {
context: kindContext
})brave-dawn-64711
06/02/2021, 1:37 PMand use normally:
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const ns = new k8s.core.v1.Namespace(
nsName,
{
metadata: {
name: nsName,
labels: {
name: nsName,
app: appName
}
}
},
{ provider: kindProvider },
)brave-dawn-64711
06/02/2021, 1:38 PMbtw. if there are any ts/js devs here and want to drop a PR or issue in my pulimi-kind repo on how to publish to npm, then it would be appreciated (I'm new to node)
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