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K8s is definitely more focused on production quality and high availability. It has more concepts like ReplicaSets and disruption budgets during deployments. It also frequently manages relationships with tags, for instance: create an Ingress load balancer that watches for certain tags, then create service containers that advertise those tags. K8s wires them together dynamically and automatically.

If your goal is learning, a k8s cluster will teach you a lot! It’s really neat and useful once set up properly, but has a steep learning curve. If you’re going for working functionality in your home, keep it simple. I use simple docker compose and nginx proxy for home stuff.

I had a similar problem and was unable to find replacement parts, so I replaced the whole spigot.