To become more familiar with managed container environments, I decided a hands on approach was best. I discovered that Raspberry Pi computers were powerful enough to manage the task of running Kubernetes. From there I purchased a few required resources and got started.
Through a lot of trial and error, I was able to get a working Kubernetes cluster up and running (k3s). However, running the cluster in my environment was not as useful as I would have hoped. The issue primarily revolved around the architecture. Since raspberry pi compute is done on ARM architecture, containers also needed to be built using the same architecture. This became more of a headache than it was worth. Eventually I decided to use the hardware for something else.
Now my raspberry pi 'cluster runs' various applications to manage many aspects of my home lab.
