I am not a Kubernetes advocate but what else is there that handles all of the issues faced when deploying containers? Such as scaling, deployment, configuration etc?
There are alternatives such as Hashicorps Nomad, but I don't see how this is any better/worse that K8s.
It's basically a higher level of managed Kubernetes ( EKS or GKE ). You give your containers, and they take care of running it.
Tim Hockin (one of kubernetes creator) support the idea to use something as much managed and automatic as possible : https://twitter.com/thockin/status/1539987108521054208
I need to run some services on premises and have set up a self hosted Kubernetes instance on a physical server in a rack.
It could be overkill and maybe I could use something like Docker Swarm. Apart from this I am unsure what I can use that isn't K8s to orchestrate my containers on site.