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Kubernetes Is Overkill for 99% of Apps (We Run 500k Logs/Day on Docker Compose) (dev.to)
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[–] alienscience@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago

That's a cool docker compose setup and is definitely competitive with a single node k8s deployment I run for hobby projects (k3s). The simplicity of this docker compose setup is an advantage, but it is missing some useful features compared to k8s:

  • No Let's Encrypt support for Nginx using Cert Manager.
  • No git ops support, the deployment shell script is manually run.
  • No management ui's like Lens or k9s.
  • Will not scale to multiple machines without changing the technology to k8s or Nomad.

That said, I would be happy to run their setup if I hadn't gone through the pain of learning k8s.