Comment by SlavikCA
2 days ago
I'm running k3s at home on single node with local storage. Few blogs, forum, minIO.
Very easy, reliable.
Without k3s I would have use Docker, but k3s really adds important features: easier to manage network, more declarative configuration, bundled Traefik...
So, I'm convinced that quite a few people can happily and efficiently use k8s.
In the past I used other k8s distro (Harvester) which was much more complicated to use and fragile to maintain.
Check out Talos Linux if you haven't already, it's pretty cool (if you want k8s).
I tried Talos few month ago. Found it unstable and complicated; reported few bugs.
And because they are "immutable" - I found it's significantly more complicated to use with no tangible benefits. I do not want to learn and deal declarative machine configs, learn how to create custom images with GPU drivers...
Quite a few things which I get done on Ubuntu / Debian under 60 seconds - takes me half an hour to figure out with Talos.
Learning new things takes time.
It sounds like an immutable kubernetes distro doesn't solve any problems for you.
How do you manage node settings k8s does not yet handle with Talos?
Talos has it's own API that you interact with primarily through the talosctl command line. You apply a declarative machineconfig.yaml with which custom settings can be set per-node if you wish.