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  • Of course it is overkill for a homelab. The other features you mentioned, can be achieved by Nomad or Swarm as well. And with Nomad you don’t even have to use the Docker engine.

    Just ask yourself the following question: why is helm so popular? Why do I need a third party scripting language just for K8s?

    You clearly will feel that K8s did many things right. 10 years ago. But we learned from that. And operations cost are exploding everywhere I see K8s in use (with or without Helm). Weird side effects, because at this layer you almost have an indefinite amount of edge cases.

    That’s why I move away from K8s. To make very large and complex platforms manageable for a small operations team. The DevOps Engineers don’t like that obviously, because it is a major skill on the job market. In the end, I have to prioritize and all I can do is spread awareness, that K8s was great at some point, as was Windows 98 SE.








  • Yeah I saw that plugin a few years ago and it was not ready for production yet.

    I am going a whole different route, but have the same motivation: get rid of docker and improve the security.

    I will move from docker compose to Nomad. And I will also not use containers itself anymore. I want/need more security. You can achieve this with MicroVM (Firecracker). However, you would need to build those VM images yourself. But there is a solution to it. Kata-containers. They allow to deploy OCI compliant containers into seperate MicroVM’s. Then you have true isolation from the host kernel, while not losing much of start-up time.