alt Hacker News> Why do I need a cluster?
I run a single-node K8s cluster on a dedicated server because it's way cleaner to manage than the previous mess and mix of docker compose + traefik routing + random stuff installed as package on the host.
I can create "vhosts" for practically anything in a declarative manner, and if the cluster blows up, I have 5 small scripts to bootstrap it and all I need is `kubectl apply -k .`.
I briefly played with k3s before realising than with a single machine I was maintaining a lot of complexity for limited benefits. Then I switched to NixOS, have everything declared in configuration and a much leaner and simpler setup