• Service discovery - DNS based service discovery.
• Multi-host network - Designed to run on several nodes.
• Kubernetes manifests - Deploy using the same syntax you use in your day job, without the burden of running k8s yourself.
• Small resource footprint - Skate is written in rust, runs no daemon of it’s own and uses minimal resources.
• Https by default - Ingress resources get LetsEncrypt TLS by default.

Born out of the frustration of having to learn yet another deployment configuration file syntax.

Skate runs as a CLI on your machine and talks to a small binary on each host over ssh.

Leverages podman kube play to run pod manifests.

Supported server linux distros:

• Ubuntu 24.04 (x86_64, aarch64)

• Fedora 42,43 (x86_64, aarch64)

• Fedora CoreOS stable (x86_64, aarch64)

  You need to first rebase using the ostree image ghcr.io/skateco/fcos-skate:

  sudo rpm-ostree rebase --reboot ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/skateco/fcos-skate
  

Supported client os: macOs (aarch64), Linux (x86_64, aarch64)

You can deploy:

• Pods
• Deployments
• DaemonSets
• CronJobs
• Ingress
• Secrets
• Services

An nginx ingress runs on port 80 and 443 on all nodes. Lets-encrypt provides the certificates.

Getting Started

See the quickstart for a guide on how to get started.

Or leeroy jenkins it:

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/skateco/skate/refs/heads/main/hack/install-skate.sh | bash

Built on

• Podman
• Openresty
• Coredns
• LVS
• Keepalived
• Systemd

Supported manifest attributes

For pods (which affects deployments, daemonsets and cronjobs), see podman kube play's documentation

For other resources, I'll add some documentation soon. Check ./hack/ for examples of what's been tested.

Developing

Mac

Native:

Install the targets:

rustup target add x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
rustup target add aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu

Install the cross toolchains:

brew tap messense/macos-cross-toolchains
# install x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu toolchain
brew install x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
# install aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu toolchain
brew install aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu

#add following to ~/.profile
PATH="${PATH}:/usr/local/Cellar/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/13.3.0.reinstall/bin/"
PATH="${PATH}:/usr/local/Cellar/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/13.3.0.reinstall/bin/"
# or whatever path brew puts the binaries in

make amd64
## or
make aarch64

Or just use https://github.com/cross-rs/cross

make amd64-cross
## or
make aarch64-cross

Note: you may need to run this to get cross to work, (issue):

docker run --privileged --rm tonistiigi/binfmt --install amd64

Ubuntu

# multipass image doesn't have much
sudo apt-get install -y gcc make libssl-dev pkg-config protobuf-compiler