Why would you use k8s for image hosting?
I use bucket storage from my cloud provider with a subdomain. With this kind of setup you can get access control and a CDN out of the box.
this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
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Yep, k8s is for people who need regular capacity scaling and high availability. Self hosting images is a static website, perfect for an S3 bucket or similar
I guess if you were an image host running a thumbnailing service or something 🤔
I mean it has longhorn and NFS storage providers, k8s would just be for the services cause it's easy to deploy and manage.
As for streaming, I use OvenMediaEngine to stream to my friends: https://github.com/AirenSoft/OvenMediaEngine
It has a latency way under half a second and is perfect for streaming video games.
Picsur might be a good option, it was designed to be a self-hosted replacement for imgur. Here is the github:
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