Dear Openshift and Kubernetes users,

after my single-node OpenShift cluster broke for the third time (pods not coming up, no idea what went wrong this time), I reinstalled the machine and tried MicroShift.

I overlooked the tiny detail in the documentation that there are subscription repos for RHEL10, but only packages for RHEL9. So I had to reinstall my machine after trying RHEL10 first.

In general microshift seems to be an easy way to get a OpenShift-like "cluster" running on a single machine. I'll report back once I did some more thorough testing.

#OpenShift #MicroShift #Kubernetes #DevOps #Linux #RHEL #HellYeah #SelfHosting

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#InnerCrescendo #CheckTheTone #DontBuyTheThought #MicroShift #EmotionalWisdom

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Saturday night special, moving #immich from raspberry pi 4 #microshift to intel nuc SNO #OpenShift. Pulling redis and postgresql as dependancy as well. Let's see if it's faster. Next one would be #NextCloud.

#selfhosting

I know it's pretty common in the industry to dog on microSHIFT, but honestly, they were in the right place at the right time in the pandemic, and more importantly they seem like they aren't embarrassed to work with the budget-conscious or the weirdos. Shimano and SRAM seem doggedly determined to keep churning towards the future and making it harder and harder to get simple, functional components that just work, and meanwhile microSHIFT is like...some of you weirdos still like friction shifters? Great. We can make those. Oh, someone wants to resurrect a rapid rise style derailleur? Sure, we'll help make that happen.

Cheap parts is cheap parts, and every brand started there (SRAM mostly started on department store bikes, if my boss is to be believed), and microSHIFT seems very willing to grow in unique directions and stay out of the fistfight the two giants have been locked in for decades now.

Oh, AND their packaging is almost entirely plain-old brown cardboard and kraft paper, so they are generating *much* less plastic waste than the big boys, which always makes me happy!

#BikeToot #microSHIFT