Kubernetes at home: when it's worth it (and when it's not)
k3s makes the on-ramp easy, but easy isn't the same as necessary. Where the line actually sits for a homelab run by one person.
I'm Mikko — a DevOps engineer who spends most days with Linux, Docker, and databases that misbehave at 2am. This is where I write down what actually worked, mistakes included.
k3s makes the on-ramp easy, but easy isn't the same as necessary. Where the line actually sits for a homelab run by one person.
Two homes, two consumer ISPs, no static IP on either end. How a relay peer and a well-tuned keepalive make it a non-issue.
A practical pass through sshd_config — key types, MFA, and the settings that stop scanning bots without locking you out of your own server.
Compose gets a bad reputation for production use. Most of the complaints come from skipping five things that take an afternoon to fix.
Why your tables bloat, why the defaults are too conservative for write-heavy workloads, and the four settings that matter.
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