[aledalgrande]

Yeah if you study over it instead of copy pasting stuff from the internet, I find k8s the best thing for my small projects. I only have to setup a simple dockerfile and helm chart and I can run a new service in my cluster on DO, for which they offer free control plane, and not be billed for a completely new app and have to setup all my deps and env vars in a clunky UI. I can setup scaling, ingress easily, the Datadog agent is going to pick it up automatically, I can have services communicating via private dns etc. etc.

I am not an ops guy.

[miamibougie]

+1 this is what I do as well. If you have any semblance of uniformity in your project folder structure, you can even automate the build/deploy process with a simple shell script/bash function.

Of course, this quickly stops working once your small projects grow to have multiple collaborators, a staging environment, etc. - but at that point you're running a proper business