If you are looking to run your containers in a very light weight way and also easily understood, you can use systemd for this and use tips from this article. You will have to do the orchestration yourself so I think it would have to be more suitable for very simple deployments with small teams and / or part time projects.
I've used systemd containers to run badly behaved GUI apps, e.g. Steam and MS Teams on my personal computers. Surprisingly good experience, the systemd manual pages are extremely comprehensive and, in my opinion, much easier to understand than people make them out to be.
