[bionhoward]

I've been agonizing over devops lately and for me K3s looks like a lighter version of the full API. Another option is NixOS, if we integrate some Kubernetes orchestration features with an autoscaling group of NixOS nodes we get a ton of benefits - version controlled declarative configuration of the hosts enables Dev Prod parity, shared immutable dependencies across containers makes them pull and cold start faster, automatic and easy rebuilds with latest updates...

NixOS is weird and Nix language is super weird but the concept is powerful and the dev community can benefit tremendously from it

If Hashicorp does substantial work to put the pieces together on a full Hashistack deployment to compete with K8s that will be a good option, too.

Also, there's the option of just using cloud stuff instead of an orchestrator. You could use AWS ALB and autoscaling groups to do much of the same thing, and even manage the infrastructure in Typescript or Python with both Pulumi and CDK (or just use TF or CF)