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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?
I'm not very familiar with kubernetes or k3s but I thought it was a way to manage docker containers. Is that not the case? I'm considering deploying a k3s cluster in my proxmox environment to test it out.
You may be getting hung up in the wording. "Docker" containers are OCI containers, so k3s is running the containers you're familiar with, but docker the app and the company are not involved.
You can use kubernetes on any OCI container deployment.
So if you don't want/need to install the docker program, you can go with containerd.
Kubernetes is abbreviated K8s (because there's 8 letters between the "k" and the "s". K3s is a "lite" version. Generally speaking, kubernetes manages your containers. You basicaly tell K8s what the state should be and it does what it needs to do to get the environment as you've declared. It'll check and start or restart services, start containers on a node that can run them (like ensuring enough RAM is available). There's a lot more, but that's the general idea.