The use of containers is becoming mainstream in the development of embedded computing and IoT devices. This means that more and more embedded developers are faced with the task of orchestrating a set of containers for their hardware target. Once a design reaches production, they need to perform functions such as deployment, scaling, load balancing, logging, failover, and monitoring of containers. Ready-made systems for performing these functions exist in the enterprise computing world: Kubernetes, maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, and Docker Swarm. But how well do they work in the embedded world? For various reasons, not very well, and there is a better alternative. Let’s explore the options.