[SlavikCA]

I'm running k3s at home on single node with local storage. Few blogs, forum, minIO.

Very easy, reliable.

Without k3s I would have use Docker, but k3s really adds important features: easier to manage network, more declarative configuration, bundled Traefik...

So, I'm convinced that quite a few people can happily and efficiently use k8s.

In the past I used other k8s distro (Harvester) which was much more complicated to use and fragile to maintain.

[esseph]

Check out Talos Linux if you haven't already, it's pretty cool (if you want k8s).

[SlavikCA]

I tried Talos few month ago. Found it unstable and complicated; reported few bugs.

And because they are "immutable" - I found it's significantly more complicated to use with no tangible benefits. I do not want to learn and deal declarative machine configs, learn how to create custom images with GPU drivers...

Quite a few things which I get done on Ubuntu / Debian under 60 seconds - takes me half an hour to figure out with Talos.

[esseph]

Learning new things takes time.

It sounds like an immutable kubernetes distro doesn't solve any problems for you.

[mkesper]

How do you manage node settings k8s does not yet handle with Talos?

[fenaer]

Talos has it's own API that you interact with primarily through the talosctl command line. You apply a declarative machineconfig.yaml with which custom settings can be set per-node if you wish.