Ansible, terraform as an example of software that let's you manage your hardware with declarative style but without adding unnecessary complexity for homelabs.
Even if you need to orchestrate smth on you machine you can use Hashicop Nomad, it is waaay easier to spin up and manage and even cat orchestrate executions of binaries contrary to k8s which can orchestre workloads only in containers (or vms with some plugins)
Ansible, terraform as an example of software that let's you manage your hardware with declarative style but without adding unnecessary complexity for homelabs.
Even if you need to orchestrate smth on you machine you can use Hashicop Nomad, it is waaay easier to spin up and manage and even cat orchestrate executions of binaries contrary to k8s which can orchestre workloads only in containers (or vms with some plugins)