I have deployed by hand, with Capistrano, with Chef, with Heroku, with systemd, with Docker, with AWS EC2, and with Kubernetes. Like everything, there are trad

I have deployed by hand, with Capistrano, with Chef, with Heroku, with systemd, with Docker, with AWS EC2, and with Kubernetes. Like everything, there are tradeoffs. If there were a fairly easy way to do a one-node Kubernetes setup (say, Minikube), I would probably just go that route. One doesn't have to use the full feature set of Kubernetes to get one or two things that are advantageous. As it is, I setup Minikube for the dev machines for the team I am on. I might consider Kubernetes for my personal side project if I knew Minikube would do well for machines under 1 GB of memory (it doesn't really). The pre-emptible VMs that cost less than $5 is interesting, and I might do something like that.