I’m looking for experiences and opinions on kubernetes storage.

I want to create a highly available homelab that spans 3 locations where the pods have a preferred locations but can move if necessary.

I’ve looked at linstore or seaweedfs/garage with juicefs but I’m not sure how well the performance of those options is across the internet and how well they last in long term operation. Is anyone else hosting k3s across the internet in their homelab?

Edit: fixed wording

  • karlhungus@lemmy.caEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    For this kind of thing i usually go by popularity (active repo/popular repo), mostly to have the most other people in your boat. It doesn’t always work but generally if other users have to migrate at least you can ask them questions.

    On the face of it i’d go with the csi driver version, only because we use alternative csi drivers ourselves, and haven’t seen any issues (ours are pretty aws vanella though).

    We use storage classes (for our drivers) the “dynamic provisioning” section of https://juicefs.com/docs/csi/guide/pv, you’ll need to make one of those, then create a statefulset and mount the pv in there.

    I do find statefulsets to be a bit of a not as well supported part of kubernetes, but generally they work well enough.