Octoprint in a K8s pod with socat

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I recently decided to move Octoprint into a K8s pod and connect to my printer via socat. This is how I do it: https://github.com/elronzo/octoprint-k8s-socat

Feedback welcome!

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That's an interesting approach. Seems like you could use the NetworkPrinting plugin on the OctoPrint side.

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I've already noticed that plugins like that existed. That particular one hasn't had any changes for the last 3 years. That's why I wanted to have an approach that is independent from any plugins and uses the latest octoprint docker image.

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@elronzo, What do you have as the printer host for you setup? Is it a Pi, something else?

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In my case it is a Pi 4 which is part of a K3s cluster.
(The K3s cluster provides HA for my smarthome setup, i.e. FHEM, HA, zigbee2mqtt, ... And as the cluster was up and running I decided to put octoprint also onto it.)

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it may not have had updates in that long simply because it just works for what it does.

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That might, of course, be true. But as I stated I is not the way I wanted to go.