Create Vagrant boxes easily using Packer

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 06:42:00 +0000

A few months ago, I wrote a post to explain how to easily create a local Kubernetes cluster leveraging Vagrant and Traefik. You can find it here:

Create a local Kubernetes cluster with Vagrant

Testing Kubernetes is quite easy thanks to solutions such as Minikube. However, when you want to test cluster-specific features, such as load balancing or failover, it is not necessarily suitable anymore. It is possible to build your Kubernetes infrastructure on servers, or by using managed services…

Teddy FERDINAND

Today, I suggest to see how we can accelerate this creation by building ourselves the box used by Vagrant, preconfigured with our tools. This post is the continuation of the one above. Some notions will not be discussed again.

Create a local Kubernetes cluster with Vagrant

Tue, 15 Sep 2020 07:00:57 +0000

Testing Kubernetes is quite easy thanks to solutions such as Minikube.

However, when you want to test cluster-specific features, such as load balancing or failover, it is not necessarily suitable anymore.

It is possible to build your Kubernetes infrastructure on servers, or by using managed services from a cloud provider (Kapsule at Scaleway, AKS at Azure, GKE at GCP or EKS at AWS for example).

Nevertheless, these solutions cost money. When you just want to test functionalities or self-training, it’s not necessarily appropriate.

K3S on Teddy Ferdinand

Create Vagrant boxes easily using Packer

Create a local Kubernetes cluster with Vagrant