As I mentioned in my k3s on Ubuntu 2020.04 post, I really thought that Ubuntu 2020.04’s server install was prety slick. I’m used to text-only server installs looking like this:

Arch Linux Installation Begins

Here’s a step-by-step collection of screenshots and my thoughts on each step of Ubuntu 2020.04’s server install:

Language Selection

Just starting off, with the language selection, you can see this isn’t the usual ugly ncurses install. It looks like a beautiful matte black.

Clearly there’s a lot I don’t get about Kubernetes and I didn’t install a GUI in that VM so I can’t use the dashboard (which can only be viewed at localhost - or so the instructions seem to indicate) So I decided to go back to basics and look at the Hello Minikube tutorial, but run it in my k3s VM.

kubectl create deployment hello-node --image=k8s.gcr.io/echoserver:1.4

So I think this is the first part of why I was having problems yesterday with the pod I created from Podman. A lot of the commands I saw online implied a deployment, but I hadn’t created one. This is evidenced by:

As I’ve been working on learning server tech, I’ve gone from virtualization to Docker containers and now Podman containers and Podman pods. The pod in Podman comes from a view towards Kubernetes. I moved to Podman because of the cgroupsv2 issue in Fedora 31 and so I figured why not think about going all the way and checking out Kubernetes? Kubernetes is often stylized as k8s and a few months back I found k3s, a lightweight Kubernetes distro that’s meant to work on edge devices (including Raspberry Pis!). For some reason (that I don’t seem to find on the main k3s site), I got it in my head that it was better tailored to Ubuntu than Red Hat, so I decided to also take Ubuntu Server 2020.04 for a spin.