I want to love arch, but it is way too complicated. I _love_ complicated things, but arch just didn't seem worth it. My home lab journey was: manual installs

I want to love arch, but it is way too complicated. I _love_ complicated things, but arch just didn't seem worth it. My home lab journey was: manual installs -> Ansible -> Docker + Docker Compose -> Kubernetes (I told you I loved complicated things) I kept everything source controlled. This repo documents my long journey: https://github.com/shepherdjerred/servers https://github.com/shepherdjerred/servers Docker and Docker Compose are nearly perfect. Here's an example of what that looked like for me: https://github.com/shepherdjerred/servers/blob/839b683d5fee2b3123a2adb254f3d25f137cba9c/zeus/docker-compose.yml https://github.com/shepherdjerred/servers/blob/839b683d5fee2... I mostly moved to Kubernetes for the sake of learning. Kubernetes is very cool, but you have to put in a large amount of effort and learning before it becomes beneficial. Ansible is nice, but I didn't feel like it met all of my needs. Getting everything to be idempotent was quite hard.