alt Hacker NewsExtremely debatable. They still have never fully implemented health checks and auto healing. I have had compose itself behave in unexpected ways, weird things like not realizing the tag of an image it is running is actually in use, and letting prune commands yank it out from under the system. Other things I can't remember. I'd rather use something like Nomad or for simpler systems maybe plain systemd. But realistically kubernetes is a superior orchestrator in just about every way, and installing k3s is simple and k3s is actually production ready. I don't like kubernetes all that much as cluster tech, but as a container orchestrator it has a lot of nice features.
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I'm totally onboard with k3s/k8s being better in a lot of cases.
But docker compose can actually be very sufficient for what many projects actually need.
Granted I am a guy pushing for compose based localdevs and such but going further you often just cannot beat the simplicity of doing update QA or other CI/CD workloads in compose based projects. I have had dozens of projects where we replaced flaky slow and maintenance heavy pipelines with just docker compose up --build --wait in the past years. How come you say health checks are still broken?
> Extremely debatable. They still have never fully implemented health checks and auto healing.
Agree.
Plus there's the monitoring of the host that is always overlooked in articles. I've ended up chucking Monit on there to monitor disk usage et al, and also used it for monitoring compose too and restarting containers.
And then there's Healthchecks.io, and external uptime monitoring... the list goes on. Properly monitoring systems, even single server systems, is not simple.