[kamac]

Won’t setting up a k8s cluster require writing resource definitions? I imagine you’d need to write a statefulset. How’s that better than writing a docker-compose? I’m not sure how vscode does it, but it allows you to publish ports in real time as well.

[qbasic_forever]

Nope you can make a simple pod definition and not worry about a deployment. For a local cluster you'll just have one node and everything is effectively a statefulset. IMHO it's easier to write k8s yaml, there's tons of tooling, clear schemas, etc. You could even script calling the API server directly.