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Philippe Paulos
Philippe Paulos

Reputation: 382

Build a cheap cluster

In order to do some POCs over Mesos, Kubernetes, DC/OS and more, I would like to build a small cluster of 3-5 nodes. I started to build a cluster via AWS, but it becomes expansive fastly. So, I was wondering if there is a good way to build such a cluster without spending too much money on it.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2974

Answers (3)

Judith Malnick
Judith Malnick

Reputation: 351

You can use DC/OS Vagrant to spin up a local DC/OS cluster. You do need a pretty burly machine for it to work since you're basically running a full DC/OS cluster, and if you plan on testing out any data services or big workloads there, you'll need an even bigger machine. (check on the requirements)

Upvotes: 1

rrh
rrh

Reputation: 838

There is a blog where the author gives a good explanation and open source code for a cheap 3 nodes HA production cluster. It's in Digitalocean but could be replicated in any similar host provider. It's too long to post everything here so check this link

Upvotes: 4

Javier Salmeron
Javier Salmeron

Reputation: 8825

That depends on whether you want to use the Cloud or not. Alternatives that come to mind could be:

  • Using Virtual Machines in your own Computer using solutions like Vagrant (as @sfgroups mentioned) or handcrafted VMs directly.
  • Building a Cluster using Raspberry Pi computers.
  • Look for cheaper cloud providers

In all of these cases, you could follow guides to build your cluster from scratch like https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way (note that this is meant for GCE but most of it is applicable to other systems)

Upvotes: 1

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