[coredog64]

Early this year I consulted for a company that used docker-compose as their software deployment mechanism. They created new compute, but compose gave them the sidecars you’d want from k8s without all the other overhead that came with.

[moondev]

To go even further, podman supports actual sidecars (one or many forming a pod) and even supports actual Kubernetes deployment manifests without needing a kube-apiserver.