One can avoid container orchestration by avoiding the trend of containerizing your app. It wastes system resources, provides half-baked replicas of OS services, reduces overall security while simultaneously making networking a total pitas.

Your cloud provider is already divvying up a racked server into your VPS's, via a hypervisor, then you install an OS on your pretend computer.

While i can see how containerized apps provide a streamlined devops solution for rare hard to configure software that needs to run on Acorn OS 0.2.3 only, it should never be the deployment solution for a public facing production web service.

Horses for courses.