PREACH!

I run K8s at home. I used to do docker-compose - and I'd still recommend that to most people - but even for my 1 little NUC with 4vcpu / 16Gi Homelab, I still love deploying with K8s. It's genuinely simpler for me.

If anyone's looking for inspiration, my setup:

* ArgoCD pointed to my GitLab repos

* GitLab repos contain Helm charts

* Most of the Helm charts contain open-source charts as subcharts, with versions set like (e.g.) `version: ~0` - meaning I automatically receive updates for all major version until `1`

* Updating my apps usually consists of logging into the UI, reviewing the infrastructure and image tag updates, and manually clicking sync. I do this once every few months

My next little side project: Autoscaling into the cloud (via a secure WireGuard tunnel) when I want to expand past my current hardware limitations

A reason not to run k8s is if you want your server to reach C10 idle states. The k8s control plain with its polling and checking are quite heavy on the mostly idle server. I have reverted to just use Nixos and oci podman containers. Everything is declarative and reproducible