> There isn't any gain for home networking. The gain is for enterprise applications that can now migrate a software-defined network to a completely different infrastructure provider without having to change the way they do monitoring, log collection, storage provisioning, DNS migrates with it for free, etc.

This is an unbelievable amount of gate-keeping hogwash. I don't know who this person is that they think they can arbitrate what is a good usage & what cases this is too-powerful too-interesting too-useful to bother using it in.

There is so so so much fear & doubt & scare in this post. Screw this gate-keeping crap.

> Maybe, if you're lucky, you had some set of really good and reliable Sys Admins that figured out a robust way to script and configure the setup process of your original on-premise data center and they captured that in very good, well-maintained documentation. If you're even luckier, maybe those same guys still work for you.

"Only us good right & virtuous & amazing engineers can handle this! This is too pure, too amazing for mortals! They're wasting their time! They'll get the configuration wrong! They're bad people. Only professionals are qualified to play with Kubernetes!"

UGH ENOUGH. Stop this terrible attitude. This is so down-talk-y.

Please don't assume, please don't dictate your limited terms to the world. Let the world try. Let us not be cowed, & afraid, to use good tech, by these scare words.

As it turns out, it's just not that hard. It's a better environment, a better world. There are lots of home users using Kubernetes. It doesn't take a colossal investment. It's fairly secure out of the box, at least if you're not trying to run a multi-tenant home. It just works. This blog post shows that! It's really simple.

See? Look. Lots of projects: https://github.com/k8s-at-home/awesome-home-kubernetes . Lots. Good people, just trying. Not taking the poison words to be afraid, that this is too hard.

"For one person, this means nothing. This guy is just doing it for fun."

What a BAD ATTITUDE. Snarking & being mean, to people out there, trying to find better ways to do things, to create shared, meaningful value. With good, autonomic systems. With reasonably competent free-to-everyone utility scale / cloud computing. Don't accept such words as these. Do not be afraid to involve yourselves. Do not be gate-kept like this. Run Kubernetes. Run good systems. Stop being sold on second, third rung systems. Believe in yourselves. Don't exclude yourself, be afraid. You are not saving yourselves any hardship by choosing lesser technology. You can run K3S in <20 minutes, and you can start loading amazing manifests & Charts seconds after. This blog write up shows that. IT MAKES PEOPLE AFRAID to think how democratic technology could be. Please allow yourself a moment of un-doubt where you consider, maybe, this has amazing value for the home, that it's already possibly incredibly robust, please consider that applying some manifests might be super easy. Please consider that blog posts are the canonical way to share work, before Kubernetes, but now I can link you to a repo full of people sharing manifests & charts & works, that stand a decent chance of running on any cloud or at home. There's a lot of sophisticated under-the-hood boons to running Kubernetes too, but as for what the home-user gains: it's amazing. It's easy to understand, eventually, and shared.

Skills learned building one thing in Kubernetes parlay much better into doing other Kubernetes tasks, related or not so much. Kubernauts are growing & learning & exploring, in a far more communal, shared operational way than what loose daemon-monkey-wrenching spread-out weirdness came before. It's not hard, it's not weird, it's not for enterprise. It runs out of the box, nicely. It's for people who want a good means to think about & control a wide variety of digital things. People who want a reasonably consistent underpinning to their technical operations. The alternative, what we had been doing, is having a lot of different things that each had their own means to be thought of & controlled; dis-unified, chaotic, piece-meal, inconsistent. Come try a better more unified way of computing. Come try utility computing. It's for people, all people. Many of us believe it serves us all better.