You probably don't need ArgoCD - good-enough GitOps with git and docker compose (opens in new tab)

Every time someone starts self-hosting - a homelab, a few internal services for a small team - they tend to fall down the same rabbit hole: should I run K8s? And if I run K8s, do I need ArgoCD or Flux for GitOps? Two weeks later they've read a pile of Helm charts and CRDs and still haven't deployed a single service. Let me say the quiet part out loud: for a single host, or three-to-five machines, you do not need ArgoCD. The part of GitOps you actually want - "the git repo is the source of tru...