This is the opposite of what I was hoping for from the title, because I'm working in kind of the opposite environment: everyone is trusted, we don't need strong isolation, but multiplexing processes onto hardware is tricky (and currently handled mainly through ansible which feels pretty hacky).

Is anyone doing orchestration without containers? I'm working on the JVM so we already have well-isolated single-file deployables, but orchestrating which of them get run on which server is still significantly tricky. I'd love to be able to use the orchestration part of something like Kubernetes without having to worry about all the extra complexity of docker/containers.