Some tangential advice: don't use kubernetes for any of your "production"/"essential" homelab services. Feel free to experiment and learn of course, but don't use it permanently unless you master it and still enjoy it. There are far simpler methods of running containers like Podman Quadlets, which is what I switched to after running K8s for years and made so many headaches go away.

Yeah replacing my k3s -> microk8s -> k3s multi-month headache with like 5 basic quadlet files in an evening was so wonderful and a relief