I’ve lived with it since Debian 8 or 9, but the recent release of 11 broke stuff heavily and it’s time for a change. Every time Debian goes up in major version things inevitably break for a while. I’ve been content running all of this on OpenMediaVault for close to 5 years now, but its pace of development has slowed and, being Debian based, it suffers from the “release” problem. My current setup runs around 35 containers for a bunch of services like a wiki, Airsonic music streaming server, MinIO for S3 API compatible storage and a lot more, plus Samba and NFS servers which are consumed by Kodi on my Shield TV and our four work PCs/laptops at home. And like I’ve said, it’s way too complex, but recent advancements in tooling have made operating it a much easier endeavor.Īs for why I’ll be using it for my personal server, it mostly comes down to reproducibility. Don’t take this as an endorsement of it - in IT, we know sometimes success does not equate to quality (see Windows circa 1995). Which sadly makes K8s the last production-level container orchestration technology left standing. I’m still not a huge fan of K8s, but Docker has kind of imploded and its Swarm project has been long dead, Nomad isn’t much better (or 100% free, since some features are behind an “Enterprise” paywall) and Mesos hasn’t gathered critical mass. Besides, K8s is eating the world - knowing more about it can’t hurt. There, I’ve said it! Also, I must admit the excitement of taming a beast of such complexity had been calling out to me for a while now. I’ve started a new job at a small startup that doesn’t have a DevOps team with Kubernetes (K8s from now on) knowledge on board, and even as a long-term K8s hater due to its complexity, I’ve been forced to admit that I miss its programmatic approach to deployments and pod access.
I know what you’re thinking - Kubernetes? On a home server? Who’d be that crazy? Well, a while ago I’d agree but a few things have changed my mind recently.
It’s been a while on the blog! I promise there will be more regular updates from now on, but maybe not always about tech… But why
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