Building a Small K8s Cluster on a Single PC - Chapter 1 -  A Host is Rising.

Thanks for your appreciation, @ya101.  I’m not a professional expert on these matters, so take anything I say here with a pinch of salt.

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I think there are two things that you should worry about first: resiliency and storage structure. As an example, I’ll assume a HA-capable cluster of three Proxmox VE nodes.

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1. **Why resiliency?** An HA cluster is one in which, when one node fails, any of the other two will pick up the duties of the faulty one. Now think about the nodes you have in a K8s cluster: masters/servers and workers/agents. You’ll want to distribute as evenly as possible those K8s nodes among the Proxmox VE ones, with at least one K8s master and one K8s worker on each Proxmox VE node. So, when one Proxmox VE or K8s node stops working, the remaining K8s masters can relocate the “lost” pods among the remaining workers.
2. **Why storage structure?** HA gives you a lot of resiliency but also poses you a problem with storage. If you want to shift stateful pods from one worker node to another, the storage for their persistent volumes cannot be local (i.e. bounded to the drives on any of the Proxmox VE nodes). To solve this you’ll need to connect your Proxmox VE cluster to an external storage solution like a NAS, and enable this storage in your K8s cluster.

Regarding persistent volumes, those are K8s objects, so you can’t manage them from Proxmox VE at all.

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Why is Web3 Failing?

Good article, Pragat. There’s another aspect that is kind of overlooked when talking about web3 and, in particular, decentralized banking/finances. Putting all the responsability of managing crypto accounts in the hands of their owners may sound like a good idea… until you realize that most people don’t have enough technology or just “banking” skills to do so.

Just by seeing the number of scams, rugpulls, hacks, etc. going on nowadays gives an idea of how badly users, even savvy ones, fare in this increasingly complex environment.

Users demand ease of use and, above all, the safety of their money. They don’t really care about that decentralization thing, it’s too big for them to wrap their heads around it.

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