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                    JOURNAL FOR SUNDAY 16TH NOVEMBER, 2025
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SUBJECT: How-To: Build Kubernetes Clusters (v0.0.4 Update)
   DATE: Sun 16 Nov 20:41:52 GMT 2025

Yesterday[1], I unleashed my node-setup script (v0.0.3) upon the world. A
simple, short BASH script I use for setting up Kubernetes clusters.

The main comment I have received so far is that some people do not like having
the Kubernetes dashboard installed. Thank you to those who took the time to
email me :)

I sometimes use the dashboard, but I admit I find myself using k9s[2] a lot.

I could have told people to hack the script and remove calls to install_helm,
install_dashboard and expose_dashboard. But I didn't. Instead I have added
NO_DASHBOARD environment variable handling to the script. If NO_DASHBOARD is
set to anything, e.g. NO_DASHBOARD=1, then the dashboard is not installed. In
which case Helm is no longer required and not installed.

v0.0.4 of the script is available in the annex along with an updated how-to[3]

You can check the script version by looking in the source for “NODE_SETUP_VER”

The script is released under the very permissive MIT license. I encourage you
to take the script, modify it, hack on it and make it your own.

If you have difficulties running the script, or have comments or ideas on
improving the how-to or the script, drop me an email! diddymus@wolfmud.org

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Diddymus

  [1] Journal for Saturday 15th November, 2025: 15.html

  [2] k9s: https://k9scli.io/

  [3] Annex; How-To: Build Kubernetes Clusters:
        ../../../annex/building-kubernetes-clusters.html


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