My Raspberry Pi Cluster was running Docker Swarm for the last 3 years and been very happy with it.
Although Kubernetes is very trending, Kubernetes is not always the answer.
For my use-case, running simple 1 container per service applications on Docker Swarm was more than enough, it was lightweight, very suitable for running them on Raspberry Pi's and very easy to get things running.
But I wanted to move my Raspberry Pi Cluster to Kubernetes to learn Kubernetes more, break things, how to fix them etc.
I will be using Rancher's k3s distribution of Kubernetes to deploy to my Raspberry Pi cluster.
See the following posts:
<ul>
<li><a target="_blank" href="https://blog.pistack.co.za/prepare-raspberry-pi-nodes-with-ansible/">Prepare the nodes using Ansible</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="https://blog.pistack.co.za/deploy-a-k3s-kubernetes-cluster-with-ansible/">Deploy k3s using Ansible</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="https://sysadmins.co.za/setup-a-nfs-server-with-docker/">Setup NFS Server for Persistent Storage</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="https://sysadmins.co.za/persistent-nfs-storage-for-kubernetes-deployments/">Test NFS Backed Volumes with Kubernetes</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="https://blog.pistack.co.za/install-cert-manager-on-kubernetes-for-arm/">Install Cert-Manager for Letsencrypt and TLS</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="https://blog.pistack.co.za/deploy-ghost-with-https-on-k3s-kubernetes/">Run the blog.pistack.co.za application</a></li>
</ul>

My Raspberry Pi Cluster was running Docker Swarm for the last 3 years and been very happy with it.

Although Kubernetes is very trending, Kubernetes is not always the answer.

For my use-case, running simple 1 container per service applications on Docker Swarm was more than enough, it was lightweight, very suitable for running them on Raspberry Pi's and very easy to get things running.

But I wanted to move my Raspberry Pi Cluster to Kubernetes to learn Kubernetes more, break things, how to fix them etc.

I will be using Rancher's k3s distribution of Kubernetes to deploy to my Raspberry Pi cluster.

See the following posts:

*   [Prepare the nodes using Ansible](https://blog.pistack.co.za/prepare-raspberry-pi-nodes-with-ansible/)
*   [Deploy k3s using Ansible](https://blog.pistack.co.za/deploy-a-k3s-kubernetes-cluster-with-ansible/)
*   [Setup NFS Server for Persistent Storage](https://sysadmins.co.za/setup-a-nfs-server-with-docker/)
*   [Test NFS Backed Volumes with Kubernetes](https://sysadmins.co.za/persistent-nfs-storage-for-kubernetes-deployments/)
*   [Install Cert-Manager for Letsencrypt and TLS](https://blog.pistack.co.za/install-cert-manager-on-kubernetes-for-arm/)
*   [Run the blog.pistack.co.za application](https://blog.pistack.co.za/deploy-ghost-with-https-on-k3s-kubernetes/)

Migrating from Rpi Swarm to Rpi Kubernetes

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