If you really want a lightweight experience, go with alpine and then run all the daemon processes using supervisor [1] and for HA, you can use keepalived which

If you really want a lightweight experience, go with alpine and then run all the daemon processes using supervisor [1] and for HA, you can use keepalived which uses VRRP for HA [1] - https://github.com/Supervisor/supervisor https://github.com/Supervisor/supervisor