> what is considered a reasonable "lightweight" alternative to Kubernetes these days Before I used Kubernetes for my side projects and only at work I always th

> what is considered a reasonable "lightweight" alternative to Kubernetes these days Before I used Kubernetes for my side projects and only at work I always thought it's hard to operate and very tricky. If you start with an empty "default" cluster and then just add bits when you need them it's actually not that complicated and doesn't feel too heavyweight. I'd suggest to just play around with a simple example and then see how it goes. There's things that are used in "production" clusters that you don't need at the beginning, like rbac rules, Prometheus annotations etc.