Currently, I have a separaet single-node Kubernetes deployment for my seedbox. Really it’s like an complicated Docker Compose stack. 𓁿 seedboxk8s .

Should I merge that into the main Kubernasty cluster, or not?

Pros of a combined cluster:

• Simpler to manage once the cluster is up
• I can set up common infrastructure once:
  • Backups
  • Container registry
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Container updates

Pros of separate clusters:

• Currently, the seedbox is on entirely separate hardware, which is preferable for security reasons
• The seedbox is not dependent on the more complicated kubernasty cluster, so disaster recovery is easier (although this is kind of tempered by a much dumber CI/CD pipeline setup, so maybe not actually a win)

Complications and considerations of combining clusters

• Do I need more powerful nodes for Plex and ErsatzTV?
• The Seedbox kustomizations use configmap variable interpolation, while the Kubernasty ones don’t