I used to think Kubernetes was complex machinery solving scalability problems I would never have. I was wrong.
Kubernetes has less moving parts than my handmade deployments. It's sturdier than my hand written playbooks. It solves problems I already have.
https://ergaster.org/posts/2025/07/09-kubernetes-black-friday/
I’m currently writing a post about why I decided not to do that, but to deploy Proxmox and then install k3s in a VM instead :)
Still, I must say, I find Kubernetes install a bit confusing. I hope tools like minikube were suitable for production. Also, I found that nixos packages kubernetes and k3s, I'll try that as well.
Anyway, I look forward for this article ^^
@thibaultamartin@mamot.fr great article, thanks! That long Ansible/Podman YAML incantation looks all too familiar.
One thing that makes me nervous about maintaining k8s at home is handling persistent volumes and databases. Do you know of any resources that could walk me through those, from a self-hosting angle?
Even though I don't use most of K8S functionality right now and I still get a lot of value from the standardization.
Going into the future I know I'll have so much room to grow and I'll move fast because I'm not reinventing the wheel.
In conclusion: I have learned so much from my time in k8s world and it's mostly best practices. I call it a win!
Can't wait!
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