This is exactly why I built https://canine.sh -- basically for indie hackers to have the full experience of Heroku with the power and portability of Kubernetes.
For single server setups, it uses k3s, which takes up ~200MB of memory on your host machine. Its not ideal, but the pain of trying to wrangle docker deployments, and the cheapness of hetzner made it worth it.
Neither of those use kubernetes unfortunately, the tool has kind of a bad rap, but every company I’ve worked at has eventually migrated on to kubernetes
Sure, I'm looking for more of a personal project use case where it doesn't much matter to me whether it uses Kubernetes or not, I'm more interested in concrete differences.
For single server setups, it uses k3s, which takes up ~200MB of memory on your host machine. Its not ideal, but the pain of trying to wrangle docker deployments, and the cheapness of hetzner made it worth it.