There it comes, the first unhinged rant on the website!
Well fuck me, isn’t this amazing news!
Just a couple of days ago IX Systems announced, that the next release of TrueNAS SCALE will drop support for K3s.
I had just adopted the platform a few months ago, the whole point of using SCALE was the K3s support in fact, and now they are just dropping it like a hot potato.
To further rub salt into the wound, the third-party helm repo i was using, TrueCharts, responded to the news in quite an odd way:
At first they said they were gonna provide people with a migration plan, only to then come back and entirely axe SCALE support (in quite a petty way). They went as far as removing all SCALE-related code from the library charts, which i found quite funny.
As they had announced on their discord
In short: We’re 100% committed, to ensure you can keep running your TrueCharts Apps and use your TrueNAS SCALE machine to do so. Now and in the Electric-Eel future.
Ah yes, two statement in perfect harmony: “We are committed to keep supporting scale user” and “We will stop supporting SCALE entirely with little warning”. 😉
Of course, having amazing luck in life, i only discovered they stopped all updates to the SCALE repo a few short hours after I made my first contribution to the project.
What a great time to commit to developing charts on their platform, excellent job me!
But ye, anyway.
I guess that means ill have to move to some other OS in the near future.
Maybe RHEL + Rancher was a winning combo after all.
If nothing else, i won’t run out of things to post on the blog any time soon. 🤷
Update (07-06-24): A couple of days after i wrote this post, TrueCharts stopped updates to the scale repos.
Update (12-07-24): The drama is still going: it seems the community is very upset with the teams for the sudden course correction and poor communication.
Unable to deal with criticism, or compromise in any way, the TrueCharts team has decided to triple-down (see previous update) and disable the TrueNAS charts entirely.