Provision K8s on Proxmox

Over the past few days, I tried deploying an RKE2 Kubernetes cluster on my home Proxmox setup. My initial setup worked, but it quickly became apparent that things weren’t stable or sustainable. RKE2’s auto-deployment behavior, the embedded etcd database, and service load balancing all caused performance and manageability issues. It wasn’t “buggy” in the literal sense, but definitely felt rigid and inefficient — not something I would consider a best-practice deployment for a long-term homelab setup.

Hi everyone! Have you ever tried using AWS, GCP, or Azure? It’s an amazing experience, right? The ability to spin up a couple of VMs, a Kubernetes (K8s) cluster, set up load balancers, high availability — all in just a few clicks. You can focus entirely on developing your product. I mean, yeah, why bother with the hassle of learning how all of that works under the hood?