alt Hacker NewsI dig the concept! K8s is an amazing technology hampered by overwhelming complexity (flashback vibes to the early days of x86 virtualization), and thumbing through your literature it seems you’ve got a good grasp of the fundamentals everyone needs in order to leverage K8s in more scenarios - especially areas where PVE, Microcloud, or Cockpit might end up being more popular within (namely self-hosting).
I’ve got a spare N100 NUC at home that’s languishing with an unfinished Microcloud install; thinking of yanking that off and giving Canine a try instead!
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i really don’t know where this complexity thing comes from anymore. maybe back in the day where a k8s cluster was a 2 hour kubespray run or something but it’s now a single yaml file and a ssh key if you use something like rke.
The part I found to be a little unwieldy at times was helm. It becomes a little unpredictable when you apply updates to the values.yaml file, which ones will apply, and which ones need to be set on start up. Also, some helm installations deploy a massive number of services, and it's confusing which ones are safe to restart when.
But, I've always found core kubernetes to be a delight to work with, especially for stateless jobs.