Im managing my docker environment via the command line and while it works absolutely fine and has taught me alot, I feel like a more robust orchestration engine would be fun to try. However Portainer seems to be the only one best suited for small deployments and I know in the past I had been left wanting a little bit more.
So, beyond Portainer I know there is Rancher, Swarm, and then of course the always mentioned Kubernetes. The latter I'd actually really like to try but does it scale DOWN very well? Is it absolute overkill if I dont have a multi-node setup? Everything I read about it involves managing/orchestrating large clusters and for a home lab setup that isn't really the reality I believe there is a smaller version called kubeadm or something along those lines but is that a web based management console? Kubernetes seems pretty complex and has alot of moving pieces but at the same time an interesting learning challenge.
Just looking for some thoughts from some more experienced folks out there. Thanks!
So, beyond Portainer I know there is Rancher, Swarm, and then of course the always mentioned Kubernetes. The latter I'd actually really like to try but does it scale DOWN very well? Is it absolute overkill if I dont have a multi-node setup? Everything I read about it involves managing/orchestrating large clusters and for a home lab setup that isn't really the reality I believe there is a smaller version called kubeadm or something along those lines but is that a web based management console? Kubernetes seems pretty complex and has alot of moving pieces but at the same time an interesting learning challenge.
Just looking for some thoughts from some more experienced folks out there. Thanks!