I've re-setup my baremetal server I rent at hetzner in December to have a modern ops infrastructure. I started with k8s because it seemed pretty straight forwar

I've re-setup my baremetal server I rent at hetzner in December to have a modern ops infrastructure. I started with k8s because it seemed pretty straight forward to have it up using rancher. After about a week of not being able to configure a simple hello world nginx docker image I gave up and tried using docker swarm. I couldn't be happier with the decision: in less than a month of working on it during evenings and weekends I was able to set up a reverse proxy with traefik, a self hosted gitlab instance, a docker private registry and a full CI/CD pipeline. With docker swarm, if you can 'docker-compose up ...' an app, you can also 'docker swarm deploy' it, with almost no modifications needed. Also if your needs grow and you really need k8s, you can 'kompose up' (or something similar, since I haven't got there yet) and have it deployed to a k8s cluster. But I imagine by the time my apps will need to run on k8s, they'll make enough money I will afford a devops team to handle the migration. Feel free to contact me (info on my profile) if you think I can help you in any way having it set up.