For a happy medium, check out Nomad. I've been managing our infrastructure on Nomad for years by myself, with upwards of 40 nodes (auto-scaled) and the number o

For a happy medium, check out Nomad. I've been managing our infrastructure on Nomad for years by myself, with upwards of 40 nodes (auto-scaled) and the number of problems we've had can be counted on one hand (and was almost always a simple user error or fixed by upgrading). I spend most of the time I would otherwise spend doing tedious ops shit actually building things. That said, Nomad and stateful services don't mix. Don't try. I think the same goes for k8s though.