Don’t expect “van lifers” to be smart. Came across a few and most of them did not have any camping, survival or military experience/training. They usually thought they had a hotel on 4 wheels and there will always be sun. And 99% of those people were doing yoga. Not saying there is a causation, but at least there is a correlation.

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.

And this is why I do not like K8s at all. The only reason to use it is to have something on your CV. Besides that, Docker Swarm and Hashicorp Nomad feel a lot better and are a lot easier to manage.

Same as if the CEO of your employer gets switched out, with the difference, that the Russian Navy did not plan this. It is hard to find replacement and takes a while (6+ months). During that time, they have a disadvantage.

• harden sshd
• use fail2ban or even better CrowdStrike CrowdSec
• use a tool like the following to have a next-gen security solution: https://github.com/mrash/fwknop