[ClumsyPilot]

> Kubernetes is simply too resource-intensive to run on a $10/month VPS with just 1 shared vCPU and 2GB of RAM

To put this in perspective, that’s less compute than a phone released in 2023, 12 years ago, Samsung Galaxy S4. To find this level of performance in a computer, we have to go to

The main issue is that Kubernetes has created good API and primitives for managing cloud stuff, and managing a single server is still kinda crap despite decades of effort.

I had K3S on my server, but replaced with docker + Traefik + Portainer - it’s not great, but less idle CPU use and fewer moving parts