About Reddit, Lemmy and self-hosting it on Kubernetes
About Reddit, Lemmy and self-hosting it on Kubernetes
With all the backlash1 surrounding Reddit’s unpopular decision to restrict their API while effectively killing most of the 3rd party apps in the process, many started wondering whether Reddit should remain their “front page of the Internet” and maybe even started to explore alternatives. Background ...
I deployed Lemmy on my kubernetes cluster. You can find a short guide and my helm charts here:
https://github.com/grouvie/lemmy_help
I am using argoCD to manage my charts. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Yea I was wondering if should go with a docker server or a single k8s and add workers if I need it later.
Have you been able to load balance with multiple containers? Im not really familiar with k8s
load balancing is automatic between pods thanks to Services: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/
I also use kubernetes to run my Lemmy instance. Sadly,
pictrsuses their own "database" file which can only be opened by a single pod because it refuse to run if the "database" lock is already acquired by another pod, making scaling up the number of pods impossible. I wish they use postgres instead of inventing their own database. I suspect this is one of the reasons why those large Lemmy instances have difficulty scaling up their server.I saw that Lemmy container has scheduled jobs. How did you handled that? IDK I’m not sure about is Lemmy really “stateless”.
I have a server setup with TrueNAS Scale installed and I would love something as simple as a Lemmy app for TrueCharts. I know TrueNAS scale uses k8s for apps so this should be possible but from my limited research it seems like something I’d have to figure out on my own for the most part.
Yea I was wondering if should go with a docker server or a single k8s and add workers if I need it later. What do you think?
fost.hu, lol, nice one 😃