u/GroomedHedgehog

Years ago I used meetup.com to find local events and it was pretty effective.

I have returned to it after a long break and now it is:

• All around terrible to use - the upselling and nagging to subscribe/install the app is unbearable
• A ghost town, it feels like - one can no longer see attendee lists without premium and a lot of the events listed feel like duplicates (the throwaway AI images do not help)

What have people living in Tokyo moved to as alternative, if anything? I heard of luma.com but the amount of AI and crypto related stuff listed for Tokyo puts me off...

Kubernetes has a pretty damn steep learning curve: when I started out I was constantly wondering "who needs this" and "that feels so inefficient". After a while and especially if you want to treat multiple machines as a cluster, everything just clicks in place and it's so worth it.

To wit: copy.fail vulnerability is disclosed and my 3 node Kubernetes cluster was running on Ubuntu 25.04 - solution was to nuke each node one by one, clean install Ubuntu 26.04, reinstall k3s and join back in. Process over in less than two hours.

Longhorn took care of spinning up new replicas for the storage, new pods were created as needed and at no point did any of my services become unusable (I run the services themselves as non HA, so technically there must have been a min or so of downtime cumulatively).

Getting here took a lot of research and learning - I have a whole git repo built over months containing my infrastructure's Kubernetes/Ansible/Terraform config (the k3s nodes are VMs inside a Proxmox cluster that is managed in Terraform and are brought up with Ansible from clean install) - BUT if you have more than a single computer that you want to run stuff on it makes things so much easier to deal with.

It's a shame that most of the projects aimed at self-hosters do not really support Kubernetes/Helm charts - you may get a Docker image but no further integration than that.