"Kubernetes at home" called "Docker Swarm". I've been using it couple of years for many types of workloads and it's been a pleasant experience. Ansible + dock

"Kubernetes at home" called "Docker Swarm". I've been using it couple of years for many types of workloads and it's been a pleasant experience. Ansible + docker-compose.yml to manage apps on 1-3 servers. You just install docker and that's it. Swarm configuration is 95% similar to compose file you use locally if you're into developing with Docker. It has couple of edges if you try to use it for complex setups but for apps with < 5 devs and < 10 services it's really simple. You can still migrate to K8s when you hire dedicated DevOps team because you're running containers and all your setup documented in docker-compose file.