This is timely for me!

I personally run a small instance with Hetzner that has K3s running. I'm quite familiar with K8s from my day job so it is nice when I want to do a personal project to be able to just use similar tools.

I have a Macbook and, for some reason I really dislike the idea of running docker (or podman, etc) on it. Now of course I could have GitHub actions building the project and pushing it to a registry, then pull that to the server, but it's another step between code and server that I wanted to avoid.

Fortunately, it's trivial to sync the code to a pod over kubectl, and have podman build it there - but the registry (the step from pod to cluster) was the missing step, and it infuriated me that even with save/load, so much was going to be duplicated, on the same effective VM. I'll need to give this a try, and it's inspired me to create some dev automation and share it.

Of course, this is all overkill for hobby apps, but it's a hobby and I can do it the way I like, and it's nice to see others also coming up with interesting approaches.