AWX is now deployed on Kubernetes (since AWX release 18), which is great – the only thing is, what do you do if this is the only application you need Kubernetes for? It is a bit of a hassle setting up the K8s master and worker nodes just for a single application.
The documentation suggests you use Minikube for this, but that seems to be designed for local / testing use only. There’s no middle ground between these two options, so I decided to work it out on MicroK8s.
MicroK8s is Canonical’s minimal production Kubernetes environment. It installs on one host, but can be set up for high availability and even run on a Raspberry Pi!
Here are the instructions if you want to do the same.
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