[eqvinox]

> Kubernetes is Too Hard. I built a system that I didn't actually know how to maintain without the time or energy necessary to dig myself out of trouble.

Couldn't agree more. Unless your homelab's point is to learn Kubernetes, just keep it simple. Proxmox sounds good, or just QEMU, libvirt, lxc, Docker, podman, whatever. Install packages, not containers where possible. Shell scripts are fine where needed. If it works for you, that's it, end of discussion, don't spend time on "pretty" if it's not the thing you want to get into / enjoy / learn.

(My "thing" is networking, I can assure you my homenet is beautiful. Couldn't give a rat's ass how & where my paperless is running tho. It runs. Done.)

[preisschild]

I enjoy using Kubernetes on bare metal nodes at home and took it over Proxmox, quite happy with it (not so happy with costs of hardware to expand the cluster though)

[eqvinox]

If that works for you, great!

[zrail]

Agree! There are a ton of people out there that are happily running k8s on their homelab and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. I tried it and found it was just too much for me.

[preisschild]

Tbf I do the exact same thing at work and love doing abstractions that "technically" makes maintainence easier. Kubernetes fortunately is extremely automatable.