Hi Kelsey, thanks for replying. You are definitely k8s secret weapon ;) I know about this. However, ultimately the question is that Kubernetes is not a gradual

Hi Kelsey, thanks for replying. You are definitely k8s secret weapon ;) I know about this. However, ultimately the question is that Kubernetes is not a gradual scale up solution for most people. I have to be prepared to deal with building my own load balancer. Basically, I cannot do an on-metal deployment very easily. Most of the questions on k8s slack for metal deployments were - how do I set this up with few tweaks like ssl pass through and source ip preservation. It is not easy. Either you build your own load balancer or you use a cloud provided one. Now, Ingresses are not pleasant. I'm not sure about the state of source ip preservation, but last I remember that the nginx ingress had still not surfaced ssl_preread_server_name to the ingress configuration. Now, what would have been nice is if it was ingress-all-the-way-down : ingress with something like istio/linkerd, maybe it is possible. Tl;Dr - I'm not github. I can't build my own load balancer. Give me something that works out of the box. Yes, I know it may go down - I'll survive. Docker Swarm does this.