I did the same thing. Docker Compose was what I wanted for a single-machine deployment, but I soon discovered it was unable to manage a rolling deploy (start ne

I did the same thing. Docker Compose was what I wanted for a single-machine deployment, but I soon discovered it was unable to manage a rolling deploy (start new containers before stopping the old ones). So I switched to Docker Swarm on a single node, but I have to agree there is a lot of unexpected shortcomings. I'd like it to be more polished. And I'd like Docker Compose and Docker swarm mode to converge/merge at some point. I guess the "big boy tool" you adopted after that is k8s?