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....