Clace is built to run on a single machine without needing Kubernetes. The plan is to add support for Kubernetes hosting later, but running on one or a few machines should not required Kubernetes.

Clace is built for the use case of deploying internal tools, so it comes out of the box with CI/CD, auditing, OAuth etc. With Kubernetes, you need to glue together ArgoCD, an IDP etc to get the same.