Even on a small project it's actually better imo than tying everything to a platform like netlify or vercel. I have this little notepad app that I deploy to a two node cluster in a github action and its an excellent workflow. The k8s to get everything deployed, provision tls and everything on commit is like 150 lines of mostly boilerplate yaml, I could pretty easily make it support branch previews or whatever too. https://github.com/SteveCastle/modelpad