I don't know if that's a fair comparison. If you deploy a monolith you have to set up a custom multi data center deploy and manage all the load balancing/disas

I don't know if that's a fair comparison. If you deploy a monolith you have to set up a custom multi data center deploy and manage all the load balancing/disaster recovery/volume management(databases) yourself. Kubernetes isn't that hard to setup and gives you out of box solutions to all that. It also gives more flexibility on adding additional services around your monolith. Elk stack, kafka, that kind of stuff. Also gives you a standard api to deploy against. I don't think your metaphor holds up.