Bare metal Kubernetes on mixed x64 and ARM64
summary
Automated bare metal Kubernetes deploys on mixed x86 and ARM64 using ArgoCD + Cluster API + Tinkerbell to produce a production-grade cluster with Cilium BGP networking, Ceph via Rook hyperconverged storage and a KubeVirt VM control plane. Demo provisions a cluster in ~12–15 minutes (virtualized for the demo), shows one healthy OSD and a working VM, and notes real-world caveats: image availability on ARM, occasional kernel rebuilds for hook, and heavy management-cluster resource needs.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Bare metal Kubernetes intro
- 4:38Advantages and challenges of bare metal Kubernetes
- 7:30Architecture overview
- 13:00Setup management cluster
- 19:03Deploy workload cluster
- 22:44CNI and storage choices
- 25:35Running virtual machines alongside containers
- 27:23Live demo and validation
- 30:01Q&A
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