Helm

Traditionally, an ideal Kubernetes workload should be stateless, meaning it should be able to run anywhere and scale freely, though this also severely limits which kinds of applications we can run, i.e. stateful applications.

I use Argo CD to maintain my Homelab as I find it intuitive. The nice GUI also helps me to quickly inspect problems which might occur when I try something fancy. Another widely used alternative is Flux CD which solves the same problem of GitOps-ing your cluster, but I have little experience with it yet.