> Bridging the Gap: Why Not Just Docker Compose?
The draw of a docker-compose-like interface for deployment is so alluring that I have spent the last year or so working on a tool called Defang that takes a compose file and deploys it to the cloud. We don't support Hetzner (yet), but we do support AWS, GCP, and DO. We provision networking, IAM, compute, database, secrets, etc in your cloud account, so you maintain full control, but you also get the ergonomics of compose.
If you are on a PaaS and you want to reduce cost without losing ergonomics and scalability, it might be interesting.