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Nomad all the way. It's much easier and lighter than Kubernetes, but it does 3/4 of what Kubernetes does. The ecosystem is much lighter but depending on your needs it could be entirely sufficient.

I've written about Nomad vs k8s on my blog if that might interest you:

https://atodorov.me/2021/02/27/why-you-should-take-a-look-at...

And I've also written about some common things, like Traefik for ingress, Loki for logs, etc. to supplement the pretty complete Hashicorp tutorials.