[Cesura]

I agree completely. Most of the complaints I read about Kubernetes being "overkill" for homelabbing seem to stem from either wildly overestimating the resource requirements, or underestimating just how many common infrastructure concerns it handles for you out of the box (things that would otherwise still need to be implemented by the administrator in various ways, but with a less unified config syntax).

[gardnr]

The first time I went to set up kubernetes the documentation explained what each of my three machines would do. It's different now but I still find the syntax needlessly verbose. So now instead, I have a rediculously long docker compose yml file.

What are some of the common infrastructure concerns it handles for you out of the box?

[nullify88]

The operator pattern and custom resources allows me to extend the kubernetes API to cover certificates, backups, encrypted secrets, and more in a consistent centralised way.

I preferred to start with an empty cluster and to add in the functionality needed.