You can certainly deploy the web app on one server, and run your pipelines on another (or the same). In this case, "locally" would mean that the pipeline and al

You can certainly deploy the web app on one server, and run your pipelines on another (or the same). In this case, "locally" would mean that the pipeline and all its steps run on the same host machine. This is totally sufficient in many cases. Kubernetes becomes interesting when using heterogeneous resources (e.g. GPU nodes for training, high-memory for data processing, etc.), but is not a necessity.