If you used docker compose and getting frustrated with the lack of some important features, using these lightweight kubernetes distributions are actually great.

If you used docker compose and getting frustrated with the lack of some important features, using these lightweight kubernetes distributions are actually great. Blue/green deployment, a whole bunch of storage volumes supports, and load balancer with automatic letsencrypt supports, and great secret management (ability to mount secrets as files/directories inside a pod is a killer feature) are the reason I use kubernetes instead of docker compose for my side projects even though I ignore the rest of kubernetes features.