From Docker Compose on My Laptop to OKE in Production — Same App, Zero Rewrites

I have a rule: if I can't run the full stack on my laptop with docker compose up , the architecture is too complicated. But then you need to deploy to production, and suddenly you're rewriting everything as Kubernetes manifests. The Compose file that worked on your machine is useless. Config lives in two places and they drift apart. Here's the workflow I settled on after trying a bunch of things that didn't work well. The Local Stack Standard web app — API, Redis, Postgres. Three services. # doc