Take a look at the Helm Package Manager. Once you have Kubernetes running you can very easily install MySQL (even more complex high availability clusters). If y

Take a look at the Helm Package Manager. Once you have Kubernetes running you can very easily install MySQL (even more complex high availability clusters). If you can put your application in a docker you are almost there. If you don't manage Kubernetes yourself this is actually not that much more work. It is sort of a shift in thinking, and you have to retrain, but once you do that it should actually be faster. I am doing this right now and the paradigm shift is just really big, that's why it seems to take so much longer.