I've been doing IaC for years on my homelab. Once I outgrew rockets impose and a single NUC, I ended up going full regard on kubernetes forna few years, before getting sick of the complexity and upkeep and moving to a nix stack for my NAS and nuc
Tip;: if you haven't already look at using renovate bit to run on your repo and update your container tags, it's great to manage updating your containers in a controller fashion
Older average age is a feature, not a bug. I hope fedi keeps out the under 40s