Yes, I work with many small businesses where K8s/Containers are overkill. I have also helped to remove K8s from companies that were experiencing painful points

Yes, I work with many small businesses where K8s/Containers are overkill. I have also helped to remove K8s from companies that were experiencing painful points with it, these companies are know very happy with plain-old VMs where their apps just work with minimal maintenance. I personally choose simple deployment scripts for static webapps, this example works like a charm and runs in under 10 seconds: - `npm run build && scp page.zip webserver:~/ && ssh webserver "unzip -o page.zip -d /var/www/html/"` In other more complex projects, I tend to go with ansible, I have 5 year old scripts that still work, I do a few tweaks per year. A customer uses a similar approach with shell scripts executed as CI/CD by AWS CodePipeline. Related to the tech stack, nginx is my favorite reverse proxy, I know, everyone talks about Caddy but having used nginx for years, I rarely hit anything I don't know how to handle, and, the community has already posted answers for most common nginx use cases.