devops

How to Get a Fully Functional, GitOps Driven Kubernetes Cluster for Free

For the last few years, I’ve been working with my team at Giant Swarm on GitOps setup for our Kubernetes clusters (well, amongst other things). Recently, I’ve been more vocal about what we do and how do that – you can check my video from the Cloud Native Rejekts EU ’24 presentation and an episode I did recently with Johannes Koch on his YouTube channel.

For some time now, I’m also doing a project that anyone can use to create your own Kubernetes cluster, that is entirely driven by the Flux project. What’s probably the best part of it, by using a free layer infrastructure from Oracle Cloud, you can run this cluster completely for free! So this gives you a fully functional Kubernetes cluster, managed by a great GitOps tool, and without paying a penny. Check the repo here: https://github.com/piontec/free-oci-kubernetes/