Compose is fine for what it is, it’s served my personal VPS for years perfectly and I’ve hosted internal tools for teams with it for stuff that would never need

Compose is fine for what it is, it’s served my personal VPS for years perfectly and I’ve hosted internal tools for teams with it for stuff that would never need to scale beyond that instance and never needed to be public. Personal projects and even small companies can likely get away with it just fine. But if you’re dealing with any larger organization they probably don’t want to deal with you spinning up a random unprovisioned server running docker and compose services and will require stuff like Ansible scripts or similar to manage it. Once you start trying to manage docker-compose with extra tooling you might as well bite the bullet and learn k8s and get more out of your time and learning investment.