An Iximiuz Cluster of Clusters with Tailscale and Cilium
Editors note: This was originally much more ambitious, but for various reasons detailed below it had to be scaled back a bit. It's still pretty cool. The final k8s cluster project is here and the t...

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Editors note: This was originally much more ambitious, but for various reasons detailed below it had to be scaled back a bit. It's still pretty cool. The final k8s cluster project is here and the thing I build to visualize it is here, but read on for the story of how I got there! So I got hooked on the kubernetes-the-hard-way walkthroughs a couple years back and ran through them on various different public cloud providers. Since iximiuz Labs is my current favorite place to play, I thought I would give it a go there as well. It turns out that somebody else already did this, and it's way better than I would have done anyway, so I guess I might as well just forget about it. ...or maybe not!!!! What if, I thought to myself...just what IF instead of the traditional 1-3 controller nodes and 2-3 worker nodes (these numbers, I assume, are used in the typical k8s the hard way due to cost), I instead networked together not only more worker nodes, but different networks altogether?!?! The canonic