Kubernetes works great for stateless workloads. For anything stateful, monolithic, or that doesn't require autoscaling, I find LXC more appropriate: - it can

Kubernetes works great for stateless workloads. For anything stateful, monolithic, or that doesn't require autoscaling, I find LXC more appropriate: - it can be clusterized (LXD/Incus), like K8S but unlike Compose - it exposes some tooling to the data plane, especially a load balancer, like K8S - it offers system instances with a complete distribution and a init system, like a VM but unlike a Docker container - it can orchestrate both VMs (including Windows VMs) and LXC containers at the same time in the same cluster - LXC containers have the same performance as Docker containers unlike a VM - it uses a declarative syntax - it can be used as a foundation layer for anything stateful or stateless, including the Kubernetes cluster LXD/Incus sits somewhere between Docker Swarm and a vCenter cluster, which makes it one of the most versatile platform. Nomad is also a nice contender, it cannot orchestrate LXC containers but can autoscale a variety of workloads, including Java apps and qemu VMs.