How do you run the server? Create a packer image? Init scripts (or something similar)? Keep track of whether it’s up or not?
For developers who have grown up with containers, kubernetes offers the simplest, most familiar way to deploy a service.
I recently had to setup a factorio server. The official guide mentions downloading the binary and using init scripts to get it running. I tried to debug obscure issues with the binary for a few hours before getting fed up and looking for a containerized image; once I found that, it was super easy to start one locally. GCP offers a “container on VM” feature which I then used to deploy the thing in minutes. The experience felt so easy.
Notice that I did not use kubernetes, just something that can run containers. But if I had more apps to run, most likely I would set up one.
For developers who have grown up with containers, kubernetes offers the simplest, most familiar way to deploy a service.
I recently had to setup a factorio server. The official guide mentions downloading the binary and using init scripts to get it running. I tried to debug obscure issues with the binary for a few hours before getting fed up and looking for a containerized image; once I found that, it was super easy to start one locally. GCP offers a “container on VM” feature which I then used to deploy the thing in minutes. The experience felt so easy.
Notice that I did not use kubernetes, just something that can run containers. But if I had more apps to run, most likely I would set up one.