[sgarland]

I've transitioned from a single server running services on baremetal Debian, to running services with Docker on Debian, to running services with Docker on Debian VMs under Proxmox (aka Debian with a repo), to running services on a three-node Kubernetes cluster using k3os (I was using Talos, but it doesn't have Longhorn support yet, and Rook/Ceph was a nightmare).

The baremetal server was the easiest to set up, obviously, but the hardest to maintain. Where did I put that random config? Wait, why did this break when I upgraded X? Switching to Docker (and later Compose) wasn't that difficult, and made maintaining services much easier. Going to k8s has been challenging, mostly because of how I'm doing it - a controlplane and worker node on each physical node in Proxmox. Writing the YAML is, well YAML.

I'm mostly looking forward to not having to keep my VMs updated. I automated a lot of that (VMs are Packer templates) with Ansible, but it's still annoying. Upgrading k8s nodes is a lot easier, IMO.