Biggest thing I've ran into personally (for small projects, hobbyist stuff) is: do I need Terraform/Ansible/Kubernetes or can I just use Docker Compose? do I

Biggest thing I've ran into personally (for small projects, hobbyist stuff) is: do I need Terraform/Ansible/Kubernetes or can I just use Docker Compose? do I need Bazel/nix or can I just use Dockerfile? Something about not needing to install anything other than Docker/Docker Compose to "move quickly, end up with good enough, low barrier to entry up front, minimal/no tradeoffs for "maintaining" long term, not need to invest a bunch of time managing/getting other tools/pieces of software ready" kind of attractive