[BobbyJo]

100%

I can bring up a service, connect it to a postgres/redis/minio instance, and do almost anything locally that I can do in the cloud. It's a massive help for iterating.

There is a learning curve, but you learn it and you can do so damn much so damn easily.

[kachapopopow]

+1 on the learning curve, took me 3 attempts (gave up twice) before I spent 1 day learning the docs, then wasting a week moving some of my personal things to it.

Now I have a small personal cluster with machines and vps's (on some regions I don't have enough deployments to justify an entire machine) with a distributed multi-site fs that's mostly as certified for workloads as any other cloud. CDN, GeoDNS, nameservers all handled within the cluster. Any machine can go offline while connectivity remains the same, minus the timeout requirement of 5 minutes of downed pods to be rescheduled for monolithic services.

Kubernetes also provides an amazing way to learn things like bgp, ipam and many other things via calico, metallb and whatever else you want to learn.