For sure. $1000/yr is excessive. For a third the cost, you can have a three node, small cluster on DO that you can experiment with. I did it prior and will prob

For sure. $1000/yr is excessive. For a third the cost, you can have a three node, small cluster on DO that you can experiment with. I did it prior and will probably do it again in the future when I have something worth hosting out on the web. I agree with your second point, too. If you don't view K8s as something you need to know _everything_ about, it's a powerful tool that simplifies things that you'd need multiple tools for. I never really learned provisioning tools like Puppet/Chef/Ansible and Systemd, so k8s was a fresh experience for me. I like it, though, because I really like containers over VMs as the unit that's running my code.