I dont have any of this experience. I only have to change the version number and the upgrades roll themselves out.
MetalLB is good yes, and admins should have IP knowledge. I ask this in interview questions.
Yes, sheep not pets is the term here. Self healing is wonderful. There's plenty to dig into if you run into the same problem repeatedly. Being able to yank a node out that's misbehaving is very nice from a maintenance pov.
Talos on bare metal to get kubernetes features is pretty good. That's what my homelab is. I hated managing VMs before that.
I'm not really clear on the complaint. Is it immutability or not? I'm not saying delete the cluster and start over, I'm saying i can yank a node or destroy a container without (much of) a consequence. Talos is immutable similarly to nix afaik
There's only small parts of the typically used parts of the kubernetes api that are immutable and those have good reasons. So I'm still not really sure what issue you're describing.
MetalLB is good yes, and admins should have IP knowledge. I ask this in interview questions.
Yes, sheep not pets is the term here. Self healing is wonderful. There's plenty to dig into if you run into the same problem repeatedly. Being able to yank a node out that's misbehaving is very nice from a maintenance pov.
Talos on bare metal to get kubernetes features is pretty good. That's what my homelab is. I hated managing VMs before that.