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# harvestera
adamant-kite-43734
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witty-jelly-95845
05/03/2023, 4:07 PMHarvester is baremetal only
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brash-leather-94068
05/03/2023, 5:46 PM@witty-jelly-95845 Why is this? Isn't the harvester install process essentially just spinning up its own k8s cluster which then hosts the kubevirt instances? If so, then why can't we just use an existing k8s cluster? Why was it decided to make Harvester baremetal only?
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creamy-memory-47952
05/04/2023, 4:14 PMSo, you might be able to do it.
The problem is, there are so many moving parts to this project. I have tried and ended up giving up because of the complexity.
creamy-memory-47952
05/04/2023, 4:15 PMYou can try by looking at their helm charts.
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brash-leather-94068
05/04/2023, 7:22 PMIt seems like it would be a better approach to have Rancher be deployed on baremetal, then deploy Harvester inside of rancher and link the two. This would remove an entire layer of complexity
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witty-jelly-95845
05/06/2023, 7:13 PMFirstly note that I don't work for SUSE/Rancher. The first version (0.2.0) of Harvester was baremetal and helm charts but from 0.3.0 it's been baremetal only. Harvester is a complex beast, combining various technologies.