> But Kubernetes does much more in terms of providing the resources required for these containers to share state, connect to each other, get access to config or

> But Kubernetes does much more in terms of providing the resources required for these containers to share state, connect to each other, get access to config or secrets etc. This was OPs argument, and mine as well. My side project which is counting requests per minute or hour really doesn’t need that, however I need to eat the overhead of K8s just to have the nice dx of being able to push a container to a registry and it gets deployed automatically with no downtime. I don’t want to pay to host even a K3s node when my workload doesn’t even tickle a 1vCPU 256mb ram instance, but I also don’t want to build some custom scaffold to so the work. So I end up with SSH and SCP… quadlets and podman-systemd solves those problems I have reasonably well and OPs post is very valuable because it builds awareness of a solution that solves my problems.