I'm also on a 2-person project on DigitalOcean k8s, also very happy.
K8s is kind of messy compared to Heroku, which I don't love, but is also way more powerful and can be more secure. I don't know what I'd use instead of it, exactly as you said.
Also, we run a VPC-only K3s node for some simple internal tools that works great as well.
K8s is kind of messy compared to Heroku, which I don't love, but is also way more powerful and can be more secure. I don't know what I'd use instead of it, exactly as you said.
Also, we run a VPC-only K3s node for some simple internal tools that works great as well.