Going into engineer-minded solution-focus mode and ignoring the meta here - Hashicorp Nomad is lightweight wrapper around docker, works just fine on a single-server, GUI or CLI at your discretion, automation options scale nicely.
Logging - look at Loki, also by Grafana Corp, will run in a container, Nomad has a docker driver extension to send logs to a Loki endpoint (podman has some sharper edges, but probably less so on a single-host setup).
EDIT: I haven't updated this in a while, but https://github.com/jedd/nomad-recipes/blob/master/loki.nomad gives a taste for a very basic Loki job under Nomad. In terms of prereqs, you'd need docker & nomad running, and have a persistent volume (to local disk) configured in Nomad.
Logging - look at Loki, also by Grafana Corp, will run in a container, Nomad has a docker driver extension to send logs to a Loki endpoint (podman has some sharper edges, but probably less so on a single-host setup).
EDIT: I haven't updated this in a while, but https://github.com/jedd/nomad-recipes/blob/master/loki.nomad gives a taste for a very basic Loki job under Nomad. In terms of prereqs, you'd need docker & nomad running, and have a persistent volume (to local disk) configured in Nomad.