I personally think of a small DIY rack stuffed with commodity HDDs off Ebay with an LVM spanned across a bunch of RAID1s. I don’t want any complex architectural solutions since my homelab’s scale always equals 1. To my current understanding this has little to no obvious drawbacks. What do you think?
Longhorn is goated to manage volume availability across geographically distant nodes.
If you’re running a one-node show, hostpath will do fine (or just dont kubernetes at all, tbh)