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> jump into kubernetes directly instead of just using docker

Option A: learn k8s, use it for anything containerized. Don't use the complicated parts if you don't need them.

Option B: learn docker (docker compose I guess?), use that... then also learn k8s because you'll eventually have to anyway

I'd argue most companies would never have to touch k8s but Docker is a valuable skill to have.

I’d agree here. I thought kubernetes was going to dominate the container compute space, but ECS and similar non-k8s solution took up way more steam than I expected. I wouldn’t be surprised if k8s still dominates market share, but you can go really far with other orchestration services.

ECS, while vendor locked and less extensible, is actually pretty solid to work with.

It's not that I don't want to run them locally. It's more like I would like to

a) use HTTPS when developing services b) give each service a unique hostname c) run all my services on the same port

and there's simply no easy way to do that that I know of. Hence my Ask HN :)

Even Docker ... does that solve a problem OP has?

Yes, just write a small docker compose file and you can start all of the services with 1 command. Either isolated or connected, however OP wants to use them.