Hand-managed servers should not exist anymore outside of proof-of-concept work. There is no shortage of tools to automate provisioning and deployment, and Kuber

Hand-managed servers should not exist anymore outside of proof-of-concept work. There is no shortage of tools to automate provisioning and deployment, and Kubernetes is one of many options. Bringing up servers should be as automated and reproducible as your CI pipeline for building software -- when you discover problems, go ahead and fix them manually, but then you should update your automated processes to include them.