Many of the posts I read here are about Docker. Is anybody using Kubernetes to manage their self hosted stuff? For those who’ve tried it and went back to Docker, why?

I’m doing my 3rd rebuild of a K8s cluster after learning things that I’ve done wrong and wanted to start fresh, but when enhancing my Docker setup and deciding between K8s and Docker Swarm, I decided on K8s for the learning opportunities and how it could help me at work.

What’s your story?

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    710 months ago

    I run a 2 node k3s cluster. There are a few small advantages over docker swarm, built-in network policies to lock down my VPN/Torrent pod being the main one.

    Other than that writing kubernetes yaml files is a lot more verbose than docker-compose. Helm does make it bearable, though.

    Due to real-life my migration to the cluster is real slow, but the goal is to move all my services over.

    It’s not “better” than compose but I like it and it’s nice to have worked with it.