You self-host services at home, but upgrades break things, rollbacks require SSH-ing in to kill containers manually, and there's no safety net if your hardware fails.
Thibault Martin, Director of Program Development at the Matrix Foundation, walked this exact path — from Docker Compose to Podman with Ansible to Kubernetes on a single server — and explains why each transition happened and what it solved.
In this interview:
Why Ansible's declarative promise fell short with the Podman collection, forcing sequential imperative steps instead of desired-state definitions
How community Helm charts replace the need to write and maintain every manifest yourself
Why GitOps isn't just a deployment workflow — it's a disaster recovery strategy when your infrastructure lives in your living room
How k3s removes the barrier to entry by bundling opinionated defaults so you can skip choosing CNI plugins and storage providers
Kubernetes doesn't have to be enterprise-scale — with the right distribution and community tooling, it can be a practical, low-overhead choice for anyone who cares about their data.
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