Exactly. A lot of the comments here are along the lines of "we setup a k8s cluster and now managing it is a huge burden" which is not surprising. The power of k

Exactly. A lot of the comments here are along the lines of "we setup a k8s cluster and now managing it is a huge burden" which is not surprising. The power of k8s is to allow separation of concerns in your technology organization. You can have a dedicated team to build and maintain the underlying cluster and then app development teams are consumers who deploy their application on the common infrastructure. Kubernetes provides a nice abstraction layer so those two teams/orgs can interact through a well-defined API. As a dev team, we can manage our own infrastructure and pipeline through declarative configurations and let someone else manage the underlying compute and network infrastructure. As long as you don't fall into the anti-pattern of "every team builds it's own k8s cluster" then you should be able to derive some nice economies of scale.