I actually have a Mac Mini M4 Pro with 48G. I gave the k8s example because this is what I was doing with it. Was because I am back to using Linux as my worksta

I actually have a Mac Mini M4 Pro with 48G. I gave the k8s example because this is what I was doing with it. Was because I am back to using Linux as my workstation. My Mac Mini is now a headless server for llama.cpp. So, you are right that for these workloads , I would not be using the Mac Mini for k8s AND llama. Another thing going against using a Mac for Linux containers is that there are no solutions that I know that properly manages memory : memory is given to the Linux vm , but never fluctuates if the needs in the vm are less than the initial request. I know Orb Stack does that but is it proprietary. I think UTM does it , but not sure I would use UTM instead of Lima, Colima , multipass , etc to run containers.