No, it is not worth it. The benefits of k8s really kicks in at scale, which none of us really reach. Most of us would be well served with proxmox or similar.

But then again, if we were all reasonable people most of us wouldn’t have a homelab either.

Anyways, I run K3S. It’s overkill, but that’s fine. But god, helm. Most of the problems I’ve had with my kubernetes setup has been half baked, abandonware helm charts not supported by the project in question. I’m going through a process of removing every instance of helm where the chart isn’t first party created.