Homer

Static Vue.js single-page app that reads a single YAML config file at load time — no server-side logic, no database, no API beyond serving static assets.

Being fully static, it scales close to perfectly — any number of replicas behind a load balancer or CDN serve identical content with zero shared state. The trade-off is architectural simplicity comes at the cost of any real backend logic, so there's little to differentiate on beyond serving speed.

Deploy as a single stateless pod serving static files, with the YAML config mounted via a ConfigMap-style volume or baked into the image at build time; mirror the base nginx/static-server image via mirror.gcr.io. Trivial to run — no other pods are needed at all.