Did not realize swarm was still a thing, not trying to be offensive here.

My best find was using traefik as a reverse proxy in docker (compose). It is easily configurable through container labels and pulls resource definitions straight from docker. It is awesome!

Without supported loadbalancer Kubernetes is no fun / not doable in my opinion.

For Hetzner for example, there are some recipes to be found to use an LB and also volumes.

I’ve stepped back to docker compose with a traefik proxy which takes labels from the containers to decide where to route what.

Highly recommended!