I deployed Lemmy on my kubernetes cluster. You can find a short guide and my helm charts here:

https://lemmy.help/post/6845

https://github.com/grouvie/lemmy_help

I am using argoCD to manage my charts. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Interesting writeup. I’m curious about the resource usage of the Lemmy backend and frontend deployments. Do you have any insights on the resource utilization of these deployments?

Hosting at Hetzner.

• 3x CX41 -> 4 vCPU, 16GB RAM
• 3x CX21 -> 2 vCPU, 4GB RAM
• 1x CPX21 -> 3 vCPU, 4GB RAM

Server configuration may appear a bit weird. I have the storage managed with longhorn. It’s not on the nodes, but mounted to them.

Exactly this. You should use docker and for a beginner Podman is perfect.

While setting up pict-rs on my cluster I noticed a pict-rs environment variable to convert all uploaded pictures to the png format. That may also be activated. I guess that makes de-duplication way easier.

In my opinion restarting with rust is currently not the best idea. There are a lot of more polished tools available for other languages. But if you are sure about using rust, you can check out arewegameyet. It lists a lot of tools and crates to start game development with rust. I tried out bevy once, but couldn’t really figure it out in a time I was happy with. Doing stuff like this in rust includes a lot of reading (auto generated) documentations and just trying stuff out again, again and again.

I am running Lemmy in a Kubernetes cluster. You can find the helm charts and a short documentation here: https://github.com/grouvie/lemmy_help

I am happy to help should anyone have further questions. :)

What does your setup look like? Using traefik instead of nginx shouldn’t be a big problem.

I created a helm chart to help setting up Lemmy on kubernetes. I am already using it successfully for my instance. You can find the charts and a short documentation here:

https://github.com/grouvie/lemmy_help

I’m happy to help with further questions and problems, too.