[lebowen]

I'm a developer that uses Kubernetes in production purely because I want to be able to use the same Docker images that I use in development.

I am not a Kubernetes advocate but what else is there that handles all of the issues faced when deploying containers? Such as scaling, deployment, configuration etc?

There are alternatives such as Hashicorps Nomad, but I don't see how this is any better/worse that K8s.

[clubdorothe]

Check into Amazon ECS or Google Cloud Run.

It's basically a higher level of managed Kubernetes ( EKS or GKE ). You give your containers, and they take care of running it.

Tim Hockin (one of kubernetes creator) support the idea to use something as much managed and automatic as possible : https://twitter.com/thockin/status/1539987108521054208

[lebowen]

I'm aware of these products, but do not fit my use case.

I need to run some services on premises and have set up a self hosted Kubernetes instance on a physical server in a rack.

It could be overkill and maybe I could use something like Docker Swarm. Apart from this I am unsure what I can use that isn't K8s to orchestrate my containers on site.

[MaKey]

Which features do you need that docker compose can't meet?

[lebowen]

Rolling restart for zero downtime deployments.

[everfrustrated]

AWS ECS can be run on-prem.

[proxysna]

Nomad is a lot easier to get into, all the while it provides almost the same functionality as k8s, including a lot of the edge cases like orchestrating vm's, lxc, firecracker and ofc workloads on windows and freebsd too. Weakest point of nomad compared to k8s IMO is the size of the community.