Kubernetes is great for single nodes! It definitely is more advanced than docker compose, but it’s actually not hard at all if you read through the documentation. It definitely makes running containers easier in the long run.
Here is my git repo for my big Kubernetes cluster at home: https://codeberg.org/jlh/h5b/src/branch/main/argo/custom_applications
It started out as just a NFS server and a Kubernetes server running on Proxmox in 2021.
I’m definitely a big outlier, I was always pretty bad at foreign languages in school, and I was in a very english-heavy daily environment. I have social anxiety too so I just switch to English whenever I’m worried I’ll say something wrong.
I studied Swedish in an international gymnasium and then barely passed Svenska som andra språk III in Komvux during the first 3 years I lived in Sweden and I would say I was at a B1 level after that. I went to English-language university and worked in IT afterwards so I wasn’t speaking Swedish on a daily basis, just some jobs where we would have the occasional Swedish meeting or I would send some emails in Swedish. After 10 years though I got a Swedish-language government IT job and my Swedish has improved a ton in just a few months. Nowadays after 11 years I’m definitely a C1 or C2. I might trip up and sound foreign on some complex topics, and I definitely still have an American accent, but I basically speak like a native. But yeah, it is very rare to not be able to speak English with someone on the street, but of course, it is important to learn Swedish to make social environments, paperwork, and work easier.
I would say Swedish is probably the easiest foreign language to learn as an English speaker. The sounds are quite straightforward or can be approximated, the grammar is super simplified and nearly identical to English, and most of the vocabulary are cognates with English. A lot of words can be verbified or adjectified so the vocabulary comes quick. Both Swedish and English are germanic languages with tons of French loan words so the overlap is huge.
It’s not going to make a meaningful difference in your threat model and it will cause a lot of hassle for extra configuration and broken docker images, so I wouldn’t bother.
There is some nice tooling for transparent user name spaces coming down the pipeline in Kubernetes which will be a nice 0-effort security upgrade, but if you don’t have the tooling, I would say it’s not worth it.
https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/user-namespaces/
SSDs are getting crazy cheap.
If you need 10tb of storage, you could get 2x used 10tb hdds in raid 1 for $200, but 6x used 2tb nvme in raid 5 is only $600 and 100x faster. Both take up the same amount of space.
SMR is designed for enterprise raid that is SMR-aware.
I’m not aware of any open-source zoned storage raid but I think Ceph is planning to add support next month.
Hetzner Storage box is $20/month for 10tb.
Can confirm, took me way too long to become fluent in Swedish because I just talked English with everyone 😅
I definitely recommend practicing the language though, it’s very important for social interactions, official stuff, and many careers.
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They literally campaigned on a slogan saying that doubling the prison time would cut crime in half. Insanity.
The home manager documentation bothers me a lot
Probably not that hard to build a simple flask frontend around it.
Automatically processing files in an S3/WebDAV directory would also be useful.
https://docs.k3s.io/installation/uninstall
There is also a k3s option for Nixos, which removes the security and side-affect risks of running a random bash script installer.
Definitely so in the EU
Very true. Each brick you lay upgrades your setup and your skillset. There are very few mistakes in Kubernetes as long as you make sure your state is backed up.
For question 1: You can have multiple resource objects in a single file, each resource object just needs to be separated by . The small resource definitions help keep things organized when you’re working with dozens of precisely configured services. It’s a lot more readable than the other solutions out there.
For question 2, unfortunately Docker Compose is much more common than Kubernetes. There are definitely some apps that provide kubernetes documentation, especially Kubernetes operators and enterprise stuff, but Docker-Compose definitely has bigger market share for self-hosted apps. You’ll have to get experienced with turning a docker compose example into deployment+service+pvc.
Kubernetes does take a lot of the headaches out of managing self-hosted clusters though. The self-healing, smart networking, and batteries-included operators for reverse-proxy/database/ACME all save so much hassle and maintenance. Definitely Install ingress-nginx, cert-manager, ArgoCD, and CNPG (in order of difficulty).
Try to write yaml resources yourself instead of fiddling with Helm values.yaml. Usually the developer experience is MUCH nicer.
Feel free to take inspiration/copy from my 500+ container cluster: https://codeberg.org/jlh/h5b/src/branch/main/argo
In my repo, custom_applications are directories with hand-written/copy-pasted yaml files auto-synced via ArgoCD Operator, while external_applications are helm installations, managed via ArgoCD Operator Applications.
helm charts are awful, i didn’t really like cdk8s either tbh. I think the future “package format” might be operators or Crossplane Composite Resources
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About Active Directory in 2025: Red Hat has good LDAP support. Also, with modern web apps its not really necessary to use ldap for the local user. My past 4 jobs have not used AD login on Windows. Albeit they were all small to medium sized businesses.
All the large businesses I have worked for are also looking into Macs and Linux for their employees.
It’s definitely a challenge to move from windows but it would be malpractice to not investigate it.