Hi, I’d like to share my project with you. I’ve been using Home Assistant for a while now, and I think it’s great! It’s the integration hub for my home automation.
I’ve had a dedicated Raspberry Pi running HAOS at home for quite some time, and it’s worked great. Hassio—container orchestration combined with integrations—offers a truly excellent user experience; kudos to the people who designed it this way.
I also have another passion: maintaining my own home lab—specifically, a Kubernetes cluster running on several Raspberry Pis. I derive a strange kind of joy from managing it—handling patching, automation, and tweaking all the software I run on it.
While browsing blogs by people running Home Assistant as a container in Kubernetes, I was struck by how many features from HAOS are missing in a container-based installation—there is a huge amount of stuff you have to figure out for yourself.
To meet my own needs, I decided to build a Kubernetes operator for Home Assistant. For those outside the K8s world, think of it as the Kubernetes equivalent of Hass.io—many open-source projects have their own operators for Kubernetes deployments. I’ve been working on it since the beginning of the year, and it has reached a stage where I use it daily as my sole method for managing Home Assistant. If there are others here with similar needs—running HA inside Kubernetes—I encourage you to check it out and provide feedback. It’s still missing a few things, but I’m optimistic about its progress.