That is actually what my "try out for a day" experience with Nomad was years ago. Just run the VMs, connect them, and they auto load balance. While it took a week or so to get even the most basic stuff in Kubernetes and not even have 2 hosts in a cluster yet, while having to deal with hundreds of pages of bad documentation.

I think since then the documentation probably has improved. I would hope so. But I will only touch Kubernetes again, when I need to. So maybe on a future job.