Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes
I am afraid to inform you that you have built a Kubernetes. I know you wanted to “choose boring tech” to just run some containers. You said that “Kubernetes is overkill” and “it’s just way too complex for a simple task” and yet, six months later, you have pile of shell scripts that do not work—breaking every time there’s a slight shift in the winds of production.
This reminds me of:
Kubernetes has just standardized things your company has probably already been doing, you just weren’t aware of it and it was probably a custom solution made of patched up software packages and weird cron jobs nobody understands