I run Kubernetes on my homelab on 4x Raspberry Pi's then use Portainer to manage it. Works quite well, can use Helm charts when available, otherwise I use Portainer and deploy container apps manually. It's really not that bad.
I'm sure you find some joy in it or just like to explore what's possible. But just a reminder: Pieter Levels is running his million dollar businesses on a single VPS (if that's still correct). But yeah, if you like it, why not.
"Premature clustering is the source of all evil" - or something like that.
