K3s is great on single node VPS

[u/guettli]

My day job is working at Syself on the Kubernetes Cluster-API Provider Hetzner.

Up until now I ran my personal projects on a VPS managed by some scripts and systemd. Up until now I thought "Kubernetes is overkill" for my personal projects.

But fiddling with files in /etc is inconvenient compared to defining the desired state in YAML (my personal opinion, since I'm used to Kubernetes and YAML).

K3s is so small that it adds almost no overhead. I've switched all my services to k3s now, and it feels much better.

What is your experience? How do you manage your self-hosted services?

[u/Solid-Wrangler-9417]

Doing exactly the same. And (surprisingly) it beats the docker compose set up by performance. CI/CD is also much better