
I Built a Container Orchestrator in Rust Because Kubernetes Was Too Much and Coolify Wasn't Enough
There's a gap in the container orchestration world that nobody talks about. Docker Compose works for 1 server. Coolify and Dokploy give you a nice GUI but still cap at one node. Kubernetes handles 10,000 nodes but requires a team of platform engineers just to keep the lights on. What if you have 2 to 20 servers , 20 to 100 services , and a team of 1 to 5 engineers who'd rather ship features than debug etcd quorum failures? That's exactly where I was. So I built Orca . Docker Compose ──> Coolify/Dokploy ──> Orca ──> Kubernetes (1 node) (1 node, GUI) (2-20) (20-10k) TL;DR Orca is a single-binary container + WebAssembly orchestrator written in Rust. One 47MB executable replaces your control plane, container agent, CLI, reverse proxy with auto-TLS, and terminal dashboard. Deploy with TOML configs that fit on one screen — no YAML empires, no Helm charts, no CRDs. GitHub: github.com/mighty840/orca Install: cargo install mallorca The Problem I was running ~60 services across 3 servers for mul
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