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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cloudhub.social/post/347779

I am running a Kubernetes cluster for this domain, and I'm looking at more services to run (right now I have Mastodon and Lemmy).

I was considering WriteFreely and PixelFed, but they don't seem to have an easy solution for running on Kubernetes (WriteFreely doesn't even have a production-ready docker image).

Is anyone else running federated services in their lab? Do you run any of them on Kubernetes?

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 points 6 months ago (7 children)

I run plenty of services in my lab on k3s. Most of them I had to manually build charts for and add them to my cluster. I doubt anyone has built charts for Lemmy, maybe mastodon. Anything that's dockerized like Lemmy can be put into kubernetes, but it's going to take some doing. Good luck out there, and of course if you get it working then I think the maintainers would be happy to get a helm chart merged into their repo.

[–] jax@lemmy.cloudhub.social 1 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Yeah, that's the pain point - building and maintaining the charts.

Also, I know the charts likely wouldn't have to be super complex, but I'm used to working with Bitnami's charts that are massively complex - I just don't have the time to go that in-depth.

[–] farcaller@fstab.sh 1 points 6 months ago

I don’t like helm, so I use nix to maintain my fediverse deployments in kubernetes. Typically that'd just autoupdate itself to new releases, but for lemmy specifically I upgrade by hand nowadays since one release some time ago broke my deployment and its schema change was incompatible with the automated rollback.

My setup is a combination of https://github.com/farcaller/nixdockertag (auto-updated docker imagesfor things where I fully own the deployments) and https://github.com/farcaller/nixhelm (for helm charts that I either consume verbatim PR have local patches on). Both just auto update nightly thanks to github.

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