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Show HN: I rebuilt Kubernetes for ESP32 microcontrollers

43 points • by Arterialist • last Thursday at 4:35 PM • 10 comments • view on HN

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Arterialist • last Thursday at 4:35 PM

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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catlifeonmars • today at 6:34 AM

What kind of overhead does the Wasm approach add in terms of memory and cpu time? I also have way too many ESP32 boards lying around

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vrighter • today at 6:05 AM

cloud native emedded devices are an oxymoron

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rayshen • today at 4:43 AM

What's the benifit?

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professional_to • today at 9:28 AM

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