[Nurbek-F]

One way of doing things without kube I imagine as follows: I do coding, build an image and push the container to a container repo. Then I have to ssh into the server and stop and start the container with the new version. Which I find time consuming. How could I automate this deployment cycle? What people usually do?

[YaBa]

You don't need K8s for that, only gitea (with actions enabled) and a server running docker. Actions (like Github Actions) will take care of building, deploying and restarting the container.