alt Hacker NewsDocker is great development tooling (still some rough edges, of course).
Docker Compose is good for running things on a single server as well.
Docker Swarm and Hashicorp Nomad are good for multi-server setups.
Kubernetes is... enterprise and I guess there's a scale where it makes sense. K3s and similar sort of fill the gap, but I guess it's a matter of what you know and prefer at that point.
Throw on Portainer on a server and the DX is pretty casual (when it works and doesn't have weird networking issues).
Of course, there's also other options for OCI containers, like Podman.
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> Docker is great development tooling (still some rough edges, of course).
Show me a Docker in use where build caching was solved optimally for development builds (like eg. make did for C 40 or 50 years ago)?
Perhaps you consider Docker layers one of the "rough edges", but I believe instant, iterative development builds are a minimum required for "great development tooling".
I did have great fun optimizing Docker build times, but more in the "it's a great engineering challenge to make this shitty thing build fast" sense.
> Docker Swarm
IS that a thing still?
> Kubernetes is... enterprise
I would contest that. Its complex, but not enterprise.
Nomad is a great tool for running processes on things. The problem is attaching loadbalancers/reverse proxies to those processes requires engineering. It comes for "free" with k8s with ingress controllers.