As for me, the main criterion for the readiness of a solution for SOHO (small and home offices) is no-ops (no need for system administration).
At the same time, it is often necessary to put many different solutions.
Something can be done in separate boxes (wifi routers and NAS solutions), but it may turn out that something else is needed.
In this case, it is still much easier to install a system based on K8s than on pure hardware or ProxMox (virtual machines).
Why is it easier?
- better use of iron => less noise, less space and lower electricity consumption (everything is important for SOHO)
- it is easier to replace broken hardware or add new ones
- the presence of centralized monitoring and backup systems gives hope that they will still be configured
At the same time, of course, it is still in the process of development and difficulties are possible. About the practice of this approach, I am recording a series of videos “Home Cloud”.
PS. In practice, it turned out that the use of hardware is less effective: K8s constantly polls its pods, requires triple (not double) redundancy, etc.