Rancher/ Harvester

[aconnor]

Hi All,
I'll preface this by saying that I know it sounds a bit silly, buuuut-

I really like the way Harvester is coming along and I'd love to have that GUI for orchestration. But it doesn't support RAID on bare metal, and a few other features aren't as polished as Proxmox.
So I figure the perfect setup for me is to run Harvester on top of Proxmox, gaining the advantages of both.
OK the other reason is I had waaaaaaay too many tries to get a k3s cluster running previously- this might solve my issues of tiny brain, big plans...

Any thoughts on this?

 

[vesalius]

Certainly doable to run several harvester nodes under proxmox, but keep in mind while Harvestor runs VMs through Kubevirt it does not directly run containers. Recommended to set up a different K8's (rke2/k3s) environment for that and manage both (harvester and your K8s of choice) via Rancher through a single pane of glass.

 

[aconnor]

ah yes, I just re watched the Techno Tim video about this, and I had misunderstood- you kind of need Rancher first and it can deploy k3s via Harvester. So what I need first is an easy setup of Rancher on Proxmox, or I suppose I could use Rancher desktop- will investigate.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply @vesalius