Hi I got home assistant, immich, jellyfin and recently tried to set up next cloud with helm. Not everything is as smooth as I expected.
Do you guys have any other ideas for similiar setup on local kubernetes cluster?
What k8s distro? (Vanilla, k3s, rke2, minikube, harvester, whatever redhats open source open shift is called, etc?) What issues?
K3s
I’ve been favoring manual YAML definitions, using kluctl as a manual nicety in between.
Not quite gitops, though the definitions are in a git repo to keep track of changes. Whenever I change something, it’s deployed manually, kluctl gives a nice diff of changes.
Prometheus and Grafana ElasticSearch Fluentbit and Kibana
Helm sucks. You don’t even need it for what you’re trying to do.
Honestly, I avoid helm charts as much as possible. My preference is raw manifests + kustomize, deployed by Argo
Helm has worked well for me, what’s the problem you had?
Mostly pv provisioning and db setups. I use my external hard drive as k3s storage (mnt/k3s) and e.g. for immich I failed to provide custom path (mnt/k3s/immich-media), it always complaints about some access rights.



