I’ve been working on an open source tool that turns your Kubernetes into a Heroku like PaaS — https://canine.sh — for about two years
A problem that we had at my last startup was that we got stuck between not wanting to spend too much time on devops, and getting price gouged by Heroku.
We were too big for the deploy to a VPS type options like coolify, but too small to justify hiring a full time Devops.
Eventually a few of us had to just suck it up and learn Kubernetes properly. Was pleasantly surprised how elegant it all was.
I was surprised there wasn’t something that “just worked” and plugged into our Kubernetes cluster, made it user friendly, teams, roles, etc.