On: Crafting container images without Dockerfiles

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Can Kubernetes pods/workloads run anything other than Docker/OCI format with ease or is that basically the standard?

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It can, kubevirt is a project for running VMs https://kubevirt.io/ and there have been more esoteric things like WASM (https://github.com/krustlet/krustlet).

Virtual kubelet likely allows you to plug in almost any kind of workload: https://github.com/virtual-kubelet/virtual-kubelet

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I don't know how big of a market there is for tinkerers like myself who aren't afraid to give DigitalOcean (VPS host) their money, but would rather subject themselves to hosting their own poor man's k8s cluster instead of pay to use theirs.

It's like a subset of tinkerers inside of a larger group of tinkerers.