You can also test Rancher now easily 0 setup: https://try.rancher.com

We deploy all our containerized applications to Rancher (using Cattle for orchestration) via Jenkins jobs with a standardized Makefile for build, test, and deploy, making things consistent.

We look at running straight k8s, but it was like using a chainsaw to sharpen a pencil for our use case.

In addition their devs are extremely helpful and also have a hobby of getting things to run on ARM.