But with your easier Swarm setup, how do you then attach cloud disks directly to your docker container, like a PersistentVolume affords? That one feature makes basically anything worth it, IMO. Most apps are stateful.
You don't, because you're running on your own hardware, and there is no concept of cloud disks. There are some solutions like Ceph, but they're tough to setup.
Usually I just pin containers to hosts. This is fine on a small setup. In fact, many of my small setups are just a single host.
