It's an orchestrator for containers, and you can get by with scripting declarative stuff here and there for smaller to mid-size Docker deployments. If you're u

It's an orchestrator for containers, and you can get by with scripting declarative stuff here and there for smaller to mid-size Docker deployments. If you're using containers and scaling becomes a consideration however, Kubernetes is a natural choice because of its granularity and ubiquity as you rightly mentioned. Following this logic, I think investing in the inherent complexity of k8s pays wonderful dividends when you begin to use it in a multi-cloud scenario. Scaling and healing workloads across different providers/regions is a game changer and that's where the abstraction makes the most sense (and bangs the most buck).