side quest, are there any docs that show how to setup up Rancher managing workloads on the harvester nodes? aka NOT in VMs?

Is that perhaps the

harvester-baremetal-container-workload

feature flag under Global Settings in Rancher?

Huzzah!

I skimmed it in the docs but have not tried it myself

I am testing now. 😄

interested to hear how it goes

i’ll have a video in a few minutes. 😉

too funny, I’ve actually came across quite a few of your videos on youtube over the past few weeks. I didn’t connect the dots

lol. make sure you like share and subscribe. lol

What do you think the primary advantage here is, performance?

management and resources. being able to manage workloads without managing an OS in a VM is better.

it seems at some point these two products may merge into one

sort of.. the harvester gui is based on rancher. I think they will stay separate, although they will have the same design language.

appreciate the videos, keep up the good work! I’ve been evaluating Harvester/Rancher over the past few weeks to see if its a fit for our org. For VM workloads I need to transition off of RHEV since its on life support and also looking to move more toward container deployments as well. Seems like a good offering to achieve both and not nearly as much of a headache as OpenShift

having worked at RH, Harvester is 100% easier! especially with pxe booting/installing. totally worth a look.

ya I’m a bit weary of longhorn for high performance I/O workloads. I am quite interested to see how well things work in 1.5 with NFS/3rd party storage options

longhorn is chatty. even with the v2 engine. I too am looking forward for 1.5 so I am use an external array for booting and storing vms. 😄