Kubernetes is commonly run on cloud, and even more commonly on its managed form. However, self-managing k8s on your own metal is also fun!

In this talk I will walk through some of the challenges I've found while doing this for the last three years, and share what are the tools I've used to conquer them, such as kubeadm, cilium, metallb, stateless-dns (external-dns + powerdns), and others.