[aequitas]

I've ran K3s on a couple of Raspberry Pi's as a homelab in the past. It's lightweight and ran nice for a few years, but even so, one Pi was always dedicated as controller, which seemed like a waste.

Recently I switched my entire setup (few Pi's, NAS and VM's) to NixOS. With Colmena[0] I can manage/update all hosts from one directory with a single command.

Kubernetes was a lot of fun, especially the declarative nature of it. But for small setups, where you are still managing the plumbing (OS, networking, firewall, hardening, etc) yourself, you still need some configuration management. Might as well put the rest of your stuff in there also.

[0] https://colmena.cli.rs/unstable/