News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on MicroK8s – Low-ops, minimal Kubernetes, for cloud, clusters, Edge and IoT. Parent comment

Re:MicroK8s – Low-ops, minimal Kubernetes, for cloud, cluste... by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday July 22, 2021 @11:11AM (#27919806)
> For example the network library is Flannel. Almost everyone switches to Calico for any real work stuff on k3s.

What's the tradeoff? Why not flannel for Real Work™?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:MicroK8s – Low-ops, minimal Kubernetes, for cloud, cluste... by hardwaresofton on Thursday July 22, 2021 @02:51PM (#27922737)
You could certainly use Flannel in production (Canal = Flannel + Calico) but I like the features that Calico provides, in particular:

- network policy enforcement

- intra-node traffic encryption with wireguard

- calico does not use VXLAN (sends routes via BGP and does some gateway trickery[0]), so it has slightly less overhead

[0]: https://stardomsolutions.blogspot.com/2019/06/flannel-vs-cal...

[ Parent | on HN ]