Geth is a collective ecosystem for aggregating compute across many cheap nodes for small tasks.
Thanks to NetworkChuck's tutorial for helping to get this started and the Antsle nano models for the hardware to run this.
Etymology
The Geth are a fictional race in the Mass Effect universe. Geth are individual processes running on many platforms. The more devices, the smarter the collective or gestalt consciousness of the entity becomes.
Relevant Files and Software
This is a Rancher orchestration of Kubernetes. This allows us to centrally manage a lot of small processes, such as CTF images, without the weight of managing full virtual machines.
Note: containers make it easier to isolate dependencies, especially for less-maintained apps or when we want to set up an isolated network ecosystem. However, they do introduce performance overhead. This is helpful for micro-services, but it's not helpful for heavy, oft-used or data-intensive applications. Some articles with tracking on the wasted compute using containers are below.
- https://pythonspeed.com/articles/docker-performance-overhead/
- https://www.torizon.io/blog/containers-in-linux-and-performance-impact
Available Clients
This system does not have a client itself, but the containers managed in it may provide SSH or Web clients.
Equivalents or Competition
There are many ways to run containers other than Rancher/k3s:
- Self-hosted: RedHat OpenShift, Antsle antMan, and raw Docker
- Cloud: Containers on Azure, AWS Containers