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i've been mucking about with calico on my #homelab #kubernetes cluster, and it took me far far too long to visit the whisker console: https://docs.tigera.io/calico/latest/observability/view-flow-logs

this is unbelievably helpful for debugging firewall rules

i'm very tempted to switch to calico on my non-k8s systems now (e.g. Linux gaming PC), so i can be back to only having 1 firewall abstraction in my brain

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[–] priapus@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

Looks neat, but I can't seem to find docs for non-container workloads. I'm using microvms and using it with them would be cool.

If you want an easy firewall option for a gaming PC, I'd recommend looking at Portmaster

I just installed Ciliium (another Kubernets CNI), and it also comes with a host based firewall, and an observability tool.

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I didn't have Hubble (observability tool enabled), but I previously didn't have a firewall, and I finally decided to enable it, which caused my ceph deployment to fail. This will help me figure out where it is failing and what rules are needed to remediate it.

I've been told that it struggles at very high scale. But other than that, everyone I know of who has tried it, like it.