Oh nice. With the tilde key does the window pop up? Or does it pop up and not do anything?

@@clemenko When you mentioned popup I've tried differrent browsers. I found it working Firefox with Shift ~ and `. I got it now. Thanks for your reply.

Oh awesome. I tend to use chrome. Glad it is working.

Hi. There is a way. If you deployed VMs from within Rancher talking to Harvester then you can simply scale the number of workers up and down. I don't know of a way to auto-scale it based on application usage. If you are running it inside Harvester, then you are hardware bound. I would simply make the VMs' bigger. aka vertical scaling versus horizontal. make sense?

Harvester is a good way to get the best of both worlds. It is REALLY good at "hiding" kubernetes under the hood. Longhorn just works and you don't really have to think about it. I would NOT use Harvester as your introduction to kubernetes though. I would start with a single vm. Check out kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fdhga6-Zsre6n3k.html for a simple walk through. Also, feel free to recommend any video ideas!

Oh wow. Never thought of using Let's Encrypt with Harvester. Fun fact, Harvester's UI is a trimmed down Rancher. Cool right? Well, Rancher is not able to handle certificates. It uses Cert-Manager. ranchermanager.docs.rancher.com/getting-started/installation-and-upgrade/install-upgrade-on-a-kubernetes-cluster/troubleshooting#checking-for-issues-with-cert-manager-issued-certs-rancher-generated-or-letsencrypt That being said Harvester would need an external cert manager as well. Since interaction with Harvester should be limited to only admin users I would either use the self-signed cert out of the box. Or contact a local CA provider to get a cert. I personally use a wildcard for my domain *rfed.io. This allows me to use it everywhere. Hope this helps...

Thank you very much for the insight@@clemenko . How about putting the Traefik (as cert manager & reverse-proxy) in front of the Harvester? Will it be good to forward the traffic (from Traefik) to Harvester IP with 443 port number?

@@AndiSugandi Unfortunately that won't work. The Harvester OS is immutable and rebuilds itself every boot. What is the down side of using the self signed or adding a locally signed cert?

@@AndiSugandi it gets a little complicated, adding many layers like that. You can certainly run traffic in the VM. But it wouldn’t manage harvester correctly.

@@clemenko I just feel more convenient using the Harvester Dashboard with the green "Connection is secure" mark on the left-top side of the web browser address bar (also by using valid domain name). Is that possible? How to manage that? Thank you in advance, Andy.

Not sure. I have not tested other vm platforms. I run Harvester on a Framework laptop board and NUC like devices with good success. What are you testing it on?

@@clemenkoRyzen 7 with 32 gb ram 1 tb ssd. I saw the same on a Suse video, where to guys where running a demo on Nucs and one guy mentioned that resource usage. Before that video I thought I did something wrong. You can see it on your dashboard how high your CPU idles. I like the automation using Rancher, but such a high idling CPU is a deal breaker to me in my home lab.

@@dzmelinux7769It was a big deal for me. Newer versions of harvester did not install the monitoring component. That saved some cycles.

There are a few things to unpack there. Is there any local storage besides the HBA? Because of the way Harvester boots HBA drivers may be an issue. The processors should work just fine. Can you try installing to local storage?

@@clemenko Thanks for the info. I ended up using the HBAs in these boxes because of the ridiculous requirement as of 1.2.x for 250GiB (which is magically never going to work with a 256GB SSD due to the requirement being for GiB not GB which seems dubiously sourced as a requirement just to force you to have 1TB SSDs laying around...) I also began remembering that I had this problem back in college when I first tried Suse, and also why I stopped working with it until Harvester. I had forgotten the frustrations of early 2000s BSD and Linux on the desktop driver rangling. Lol... Everything is now booting stable, but found out that these processors are not the ones with 12 cores so it is very much a PoC at this point, and not even really usable. I have to get some updated processors for these boxes which are on the way. After making the grub updates, I was able to get the Raid0 array of 256G SSDs to be seen as boot drives. I had three 480G SSDs that will be used in the future for these three test nodes.

Oh cool. personally I picked up a dell r630 on facebook that worked awesome out of the box. Might be worth a look at newed used 1u servers. I use an AMD Nuc for my homelab with a Ryzen 7 5600 cpu. 8 cores/32gb of ram and a 1tb nvme seems to be the sweet spot.

@@clemenko Yes, yes.... I discovered that I had waited too long to reanimate my homelab gear, after basically sitting around for five years with no true work being done with them. I need all new gear or at least "new-to-me" gear, and I have been checking out the ten year old blade stock from supermicro. I don't have the budget for the current equivalent, however, it will get me the high density I need to run OpenStack and Openshift at a small-business scale at least, which is the goal. Harvester is supposed to be the simple little box in my small rack that I can run my small production internet facing cloud from, however, the cores kept biting me with these 4-core E3s on the smallest box, so I probably need to just get a Ryzen/Epyc build out like alot of you guys are running, for that edge system at least. Thanks for the dialog, and the content!!!

@@MartesWigglesworth although I am biased, have a look at Harvester and Rancher. Much easier to install and maintain than OpenShift. FYI I use to work at RedHat.

Yes, on the management network. You can also have a storage network as well. For production this should be at least 10gb.

I have never seen that. Are you loading the isp into harvester? Or are you trying to PXE boot Server 2019?

@@clemenkojust uploading the ISO onto the harvester host

@@implodespwHuh. Have you tried any other iso?

That is a good idea. Proxmox is going to win for VMs. It has been around a lot longer. We use Harvester because it has kubernetes under the good. Not sure proxmox can run pods directly. Harvester wins for containers. Keep the good ideas coming.

Proxmox can run LXC containers. Has a different approach.

Thanks for the advise. You think the audio is too low?