Have been testing a bit more with Lima and other cncf-projects. Got my own prepped cloud images now start with lima instead of the macadam tool I worked on before. Seems to work, but some minor issues along the way; issues filed and let's see. So far, glad to actually move to a more community maintained stack of tooling.
cd ~/
git clone https://github.com/gbraad-dotfiles/upstream .dotfiles