[fidotron]

Heavy +1 on the labels thing. Reduces the scope of things to keep track of massively, even if writing them the first time is slightly harder because of the escaping and verbosity.

I think a combination of traefik and docker compose are in the sweet spot for small scale self hosters that haven't reached the point where k8s will pay off. i.e. if you have less servers than a k8s HA control plane would use.

[silverquiet]

Small-scale self hoster would certainly describe my situation (though we do have some of the same infrastructure issues as larger companies). We actually use Swarm which I generally like, but if it was my call we might have looked more at a simplified Kubernetes platform like K3s just because of a safety in numbers aspect.