In my experience, I haven't been coming to k8s because I particularly like the developer experience (despite their efforts to focus heavily on it), but because

In my experience, I haven't been coming to k8s because I particularly like the developer experience (despite their efforts to focus heavily on it), but because it cleanly supported some things that I need. For instance, with k8s, out of the box every running container in a clustered system is discoverable and has its own IP. If you're writing distributed applications, and you're using containers principally as a tool to make your life easier (and not as part of an internal paas or for handling data pipelines or some other use case), having that sort of discovery available out of the box is great.