I think the main question is: do you need orchestration? Ie scheduling workloads dynamically to different machines. If yes, then ks/Nomad/Swarm. If no and you w

I think the main question is: do you need orchestration? Ie scheduling workloads dynamically to different machines. If yes, then ks/Nomad/Swarm. If no and you want minimal overhead then the above is the answer. I’d also suggest Podman as a Docker alternative, especially for these scenarios. Images and Dockerfiles (and many commands) are 1-to-1 compatible but there are some nice things especially with this scenario. I wouldn’t say NixOS is controversial, at all, but it’s a very steep learning curve.