I’m a little scared to migrate some of our microservices off VMs and onto k8s (because our deployment story isn’t great). However there doesn’t seem to be a lot

I’m a little scared to migrate some of our microservices off VMs and onto k8s (because our deployment story isn’t great). However there doesn’t seem to be a lot of consensus around how to do _anything_, even with a green field. A dozen microservices, several diff DBs, and some large stateful datasets, all supporting a basic Rest API in the end. What tools would you choose nowadays?