[nucleardog]

Completely agree. Kubernetes makes some problems easier to solve, but it's rare that anyone asks "do we actually need to solve these problems". It's like buying something you don't need because it's on sale.

I've found a happy middle ground to be Hashicorp's nomad. It's a single static go binary you can run so you can define some of your setup in a repeatable way as well as provides things like rolling updates, task monitoring, scheduled jobs, etc. And it's not limited to only running containers, but can run executables directly on the host, VMs with qemu, etc.

If I'm running a single server, I usually get a lot of value out of throwing nomad on it.