[gf000]

In the off chance your search didn't expand to k3s, I can semi-recommend it.

My setup is a bit clunky (having a Hetzner cloud instance as controller and a local server as a node throught Tailscale), from which I get an occasional strange error that k3s pods fail to resolve another pod's domain without me having to re-create the DNS resolver system pod, and that I so far failed at getting Velero backups to work with k3s's local storage providers, but otherwise it is pretty decent.

[iTokio]

K3s is light in terms of resources, but heavy in operational complexity, I’m not looking for a smaller version of kubernetes but for a simple way to run container backed services when you’re not google but a small company, something that has few moving parts but is very reliable and low maintenance.

[esseph]

I've been back and forth on this for a long time, but I've just decided at this point that I either settle for podman or docker on a single host, or go to Talos / k3s / k8s. There's a lot of tools there, a lot of inertia, and eventually it's likely that I will need to solve the problems that k8s does.

YMMV

[tracker1]

It that's what you want to do, just get something running... what's wrong with docker swarm?

[osn9363739]

I recall seeing a couple of blog posts lately about docker swarm and how its better now. I can see a few references to it in the latest release notes so I guess it's still getting some love.