> There's a right way to use it, but most ways are wrong.

This is my biggest complaint. There is no simple obvious way to set it up. There is no "sane default" config.

> It's better to run minkube and get to know k8s first.

Indeed. It should be trivial to set up a cluster from bare metal - nothing more than a `dnf install` and some other command to configure core functionality and to join machines into that cluster. Even when you go the easy way (with, say, Docker Desktop) you need to do a lot of steps just to have an ingress router.

That is actually what my "try out for a day" experience with Nomad was years ago. Just run the VMs, connect them, and they auto load balance. While it took a week or so to get even the most basic stuff in Kubernetes and not even have 2 hosts in a cluster yet, while having to deal with hundreds of pages of bad documentation.

I think since then the documentation probably has improved. I would hope so. But I will only touch Kubernetes again, when I need to. So maybe on a future job.

The easy baremetal cluster these days is k3s.

Includes working out of the box ingress controller.