Intro - k3s on hcloud Recently, I found myself wanting to learn more about kubernetes, as well as spending some time on both running and managing a cluster of my own. Renting a cluster from cloud providers like Azure, GCP and AWS, is straightforward but then I’d have cough up a lot of money for little compute. Additionally, I wouldn’t really be managing the servers or nodes if I went with a managed solution....
Introduction Recently I had to set up a few servers to be used for a k3s cluster. While I was setting them up I was reminded of the “TOFU” (Trust-on-first-use) flow that most people use when connecting to ssh servers for the first time. TLDR: when you connect to a ssh server for the first time you are presented with a identifier of the server’s public key. You are prompted to verify that this key is the expected one and really comes from the server you are trying to connect to....
Introduction As this is my first post, I figured, why not write about how I set this very thing up to begin with? So that’s exactly what I did; in the next few paragraphs you will get a step-by-step process of how you can build this too. Prerequisites GitHub account hugo extended edition Cloudflare account Git A domain managed in Cloudflare Note, a GitLab or Bitbucket account should also work but that’s out-of-scope....