SkyLinx

Thank you for sharing this! It looks like a very useful tool, especially for those of us who got burned by LocalStack's auth token requirement breaking CI pipelines.

I'm building SprintPulse (https://sprintpulse.io), a real-time retrospective tool that transforms team feedback into concrete action items. With AI-powered summaries, merge suggestions, and sentiment tracking, every voice is heard and nothing gets lost. With the Linear integration, you can easily export your action items to a Linear or Jira project.

Hey! I'm building SprintPulse - https://sprintpulse.io - a real-time retrospective tool designed with small teams in mind that transforms team feedback into concrete action items. With AI-powered summaries, merge suggestions, and sentiment tracking, every voice is heard and nothing gets lost.

Awesome, will join :)

Ah, it asks me for a license saying that my trial expired on in January, when I tried it. Is there any way I can try it again to see what's changed?

If its similar to k9s and lens what sets it apart? Please don’t get upset from my questions, it’s not my intention. I am genuinely just wondering why I would pay for this tool when there are similar tools that are free to use. I actually tried your tool not long ago - I remembered now from the screenshot. At the time it didn’t support proxies if I remember correctly and I didn’t really see anything that would make me switch from k9s (my current favorite because I’m very fast using it with the keyboard). Perhaps I will try it again to see what’s changed.

I’m probably not going to try it because while it sounds interesting it seems expensive for me considering that there are free tools already available. How does this compare to Rancher for example?

With Drill I get the same numbers with or without the -t argument for tcp. So it gives a different result from dig. Why?

Wow now I am even more confused. The Time column shows 3.67 for UDP and 7.32 for TCP. This seems to suggest that UDP is faster, but dig commands show the opposite. Why is that?

On Mac?

That's why I think it may be a problem on Macs, because I don't see the same issue on Linux either. I am not familiar with Wireshark. What should I be looking for? I tried but there's a lot of information for each packet.

I have the same issue with VPNs though, so it can't be my provider I think?

I tried with a VPN too, same issue for me

Are you on Mac? What is drill?

Ooops... thanks! Fixed.

It's up to you. You can configure it with one master or HA multiple masters (e.g.). If you set the instance count for the masters pool >1 then my tool will create a load balancer in front of the API server.

The tool simply requires a small YAML config file and creates and configures everything that you need to get a fully functional cluster in a few minutes. It creates all the infrastructure resources (servers etc), it deploys kubernetes on all the nodes, and then installs some software that allows you to provision both load balancers and persistent volumes. It also installs a controller that makes upgrading to a new version easier.

What the tool does not install is other apps, because this would be too opinionated and depends from cluster to cluster.

k3s because it has been around for a while, and it's something I have used almost since it was first made available.

Yes cluster upgrades are covered with the "upgrade" command, as described in the REAME. I use the Rancher's System Upgrade Controller for this, which makes rolling upgrades very easy and super quick.

Github Actions is perfectly fine, it's what I use both for personal stuff and at work.

For the database, are you planning to host it in Kubernetes? Depending on the database type there may be an operator that can handle backups easily for you. For example for Postgres I have used the Zalando operator which does this and there is a newer one called CloudNativePG which might be even better. What kind of databases are they?

You need to compile a different binary for each OS as they are not compatible :)

At the moment they are not static, so on Linux you may need to install a couple of packages depending on your system. I am going to try and compile a static version. On MacOS AFAIK it is not possible to compile a static binary.

I used Terraform first and then switched to Pulumi. What I like of Pulumi is that you get to use a proper programming language rather than a DSL, so you have more control/power in a way.

It's a programming language that looks very similar to Ruby in syntax (if you are familiar with Ruby), but it's compiled, so by switching from Ruby to Crystal for this tool I was able to provide standalone executables which are easier to use. With the Ruby version instead my users had to set up Ruby or Docker, which was not optimal.

Give it a try, looking forward to hearing what you think :)

For backups I just use Velero. It can back up any kind of volumes with the Restic integration, and it has been rock solid for years for me.

In the past I've used Longhorn, Rook, OpenEBS and others but really, in Hetzner Cloud just use their volumes. It's much more reliable than those software solutions in my experience and performance is also a lot better.

That page doesn't mention Crystal. Is the book about Crystal code?

The standalone executables were the primary reason why I looked to rewrite the tool in something other than Ruby. I actually tried to use a sort of "compiler" for Ruby but the executables were huge, took long to build and had issues.

Correct. I can't remember the details because I haven't checked this stuff recently but that's the gist of it

Definitely. I have been using them for years and I still can't understand how they can offer such a good service at their prices, considering how much the competition charges.

Cloud servers with standard shared cores. They perform really well

Interesting, I had never come across it in years that I have been a customer!

I can give you an example of one cluster than I use for personal stuff:

- 3 masters with 3 cores and 4 GB of RAM each - load balancer for the masters (for the Kubernetes API) - 3 workers with faster AMD CPUs and 4 cores/8GB of RAM - around 200GB of storage in persistent volumes

I think it costs around 60-70 euros per month total! I can't remember the exact amount because I have many things with Hetzner and do tests creating and deleting stuff all the time so my bill is rather long lol.

Hetzner is very cheap, but I can voice for the performance and reliability as well. It's a very good provider and I highly recommend them. Now they even have 2 locations in the USA!

I can test it. What would be the advantage if I use it in my tool instead of Ubuntu? At the end of the day with Kubernetes I don't think it makes much difference which OS you use. I picked Ubuntu because it's standard and servers with this image build very quickly with Hetzner Cloud.