Building an on-prem Kubernetes cluster manager - Part 1: Why, and what it looks like

The article discusses building an on-prem Kubernetes cluster manager, Kubesmith, for a university department. The goal is to create a self-service tool that allows students and researchers to provision clusters without manual intervention. The tool uses Proxmox VE as the hypervisor, Terraform for VM provisioning, Packer for creating a golden image, and Ansible for cluster configuration. This setup provides multi-tenancy, RBAC, and automation from zero.