We went back to just packaging debs and running them directly on ec2 instances with systemd. no more containers. Put the instances in an autoscaling group with an ALB. A simple ansible-pull installs the debs on-boot.
really raw-dogging it here but I got tired of endless json-inside-yaml-inside-hcl. ansible yaml is about all I want to deal with at this point.
I also really like in this approach that if there is a bug in a common library that I use, all I have to do is `apt full-upgrade` and restart my running processes, and I am protected. No rebuilding anything, or figuring out how to update some library buried deep a container that I may (or may not) have created.
Yes, I also have gone this route for a very simple application. Systemd was actually delightful, using a system assigned user account to run the service with the least amount of privileges is pretty cool. Also cgroup support does really make it nice to run many different services on one vps.
really raw-dogging it here but I got tired of endless json-inside-yaml-inside-hcl. ansible yaml is about all I want to deal with at this point.