From Kubernetes to Dokploy: Simplifying My Homelab

Overview Most of the posts in this series so far have been “here’s how I built X.” This one’s different. It’s about something I built, used for a while, and then mostly walked away from: a Kubernetes cluster running Talos . This isn’t a “Kubernetes is bad” post. It’s a “here’s what it was actually like to run it at home, and why I ended up somewhere simpler” post. The short version: I moved from a Talos-based Kubernetes cluster to a single Proxmox host running a mix of LXC containers and VMs, with Dokploy and Docker Compose handling application deployment. ...

July 12, 2026 · 7 min · Dominik Pall