I am in the process of redoing all of my self-hosting (cloud storage, sso, media server, and a lot more), which previously was a bunch of docker compose files deployed by Ansible. This quickly became unmanageable.

Now I almost finished the setting up part using a single-node (for now) Kubernetes cluster running with Talos Linux, and all of the manifest files managed with Cue lang (seriously, I would have abandoned it if I had not discovered Cue to generate and type check all of the yaml).

I think Kubernetes is the right solution for the complexity of what I'm running, but even though it was a hassle to manage the storage, the backups, the auth, the networking and so on, I much prefer having all of this hosted at my house.

But I agree with the control plane part, just pointing out my use case for self-hosting k8s