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Arterialist • last Thursday at 4:35 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Hey guys, I had a few esp32 boards around for a while and always thought - how do we go beyond just one device, would it be possible to apply cloud-native thinking to distributed edge computing?

Result is Kube32. I got the cluster and a full-stack web app with real-time sync running on esp32 s3 dev board and cardputer - https://7f0c-180-74-71-21.ngrok-free.app/ (may go down) (should support at least a few concurrent users - break it)

You won't see one cool thing though, which is the hud pod that uses Cardputer as a keyboard that syncs keystrokes to all clients in real-time.

Honestly, it opens so many possibilities for distributed edge computing and multi-device systems. Let me know what use-cases do you think would benefit from kube32 the most.


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ZenoArrow • today at 6:24 AM

Thank you for working on this. The most impressive part for me is getting Kubernetes running on such low spec hardware. I can't think of a use case I have for Kube32 at the moment, but I do have use cases for Kubernetes running on a small amount of RAM. Is there any chance of porting this back to x86/x86-64 PCs or ARM SBCs? For example, being able to run this on a cluster of Raspberry Pis would be interesting as it would free up more RAM for applications.

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gawacer • today at 8:29 AM

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