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Comes down to knowing when to stop. You don’t really want to DIY your own orchestrator etc. So better off just using kubernetes. But then not going too far down that rabbit hole.

ie yes kubernetes but the simplest vanilla version of it you can manage

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I wouldn’t start with K8s, and I’ve administered it at multiple companies. Unless every one of your initial hires is a SWE turned SRE, you’re in for a bad time (and you don’t need it).

I’d personally start with Linux services on some VMs, but Docker Compose is also valid. There are plenty of wrappers around Compose to add features if you’d like.

Simplest version of Kubernetes is zero Kubernetes. You can instead run your service using a process manager like PM2 or similar. I think even using Docker is overkill for a lot of small teams.

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