homelab VS containers

k8s is a lot easier for homelabs than it used to be, and imo it's quicker than nix for building a declarative homelab. templates like this one can deploy a cluster in a few hours: https://github.com/onedr0p/cluster-template

here's my home assistant deployment as a single file: https://github.com/pl4nty/homelab/blob/main/kubernetes/clust...

I deliberately nuked my onprem cluster a few weeks ago, and was fully restored within 2 hours (including host OS reinstalls). and most of that was waiting for backup restores over my slow internet connection

Can't talk about work, but my homelab is Azure and Oracle managed k8s (AKS/OKE), with onprem Talos soon (Turing Pi 2). My Flux monorepo has the details. OKE performs noticably worse (update cycle, features, control plane performance), but it provides 4 ARM cores and 24GB RAM free so I can't complain

Here's my cluster's IaC if you want to take a look, it's pretty optimised for web services though. It's all Linux too - I've attempted Windows containers but Windows apps don't often handle state well

It's been a good way to test ARM before I build a Pi cluster. My manifests and container builder are public if you want to take a look. I use a base layer for networking and observability, so it's easy to move stateless workloads, but I still need to sort out volume replication/backups

Here's my cluster's IaC if you want to take a look, it's pretty optimised for web services though. It's all Linux too - I've attempted Windows containers but Windows apps don't often handle state well

It's been a good way to test ARM before I build a Pi cluster. My manifests and container builder are public if you want to take a look. I use a base layer for networking and observability, so it's easy to move stateless workloads, but I still need to sort out volume replication/backups