When running containerized workloads, every engineering team eventually faces the scaling dilemma:
Vanilla Docker / Docker Compose is lightweight, fast, and wonderfully simple to maintain—but it has zero native autoscaling. If your API traffic triples during a flash sale or your AI inference queue spikes, you must manually run docker compose up --scale api=5.
Kubernetes (K8s) provides Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA)—but it introduces an overwhelming operational tax: metrics-server, complex CRDs, etcd clusters, steep learning curves, and hundreds of megabytes of baseline overhead per node.
What if you could keep the pure simplicity of standard docker-compose.yml files, but gain true horizontal autoscaling across multi-node clusters based on real-time CPU and NVIDIA GPU utilization?
That is exactly why we built Gubernator (gbnt)—the "Goldilocks" container orchestrator that combines the dead-simple developer experience of Docker Swarm with the flexibility of Nomad and the enterprise governance of high-end platforms.
