Hello again, Kubernetes
I think I made a mistake when I decided to put my cards into Kubernetes for my personal setup. It made sense at the time (I was trying to learn Kubernetes and I am cursed into learning by doing), however I don't think it is really the best choice available for my needs.
So after a few years of switching between a Hetzner dedi running NixOS and Docker images on Fly.io, I'm crawling back to Kubernetes for hosting my website. I'm not gonna lie, it will look like massive overkill from the outset, but consider this: Kubernetes is standard at this point. It's the boring, pragmatic choice.
Plus, every massive infrastructure crime and the inevitable ways they go horribly wrong only really serves to create more "how I thought I was doing something good but actually really fucked everything up" posts that y'all seem to like. Win/win. I get to play with fun things, you get to read about why I thought something would work, how it actually works, and how you make things meet in the middle.
I've had a really good experience with Kubernetes in my homelab, and I feel confident enough in my understanding of it to move my most important, most used, most valuable to me service over to a Kubernetes cluster. I changed it over a few days ago without telling anyone (and deploying anything, just in case). Nothing went wrong in the initial testing, so I feel comfortable enough to talk about it now.
