k8s is nice, yes. But, by its age, no more standardized now, than MySQL was 15 years ago. k8s also adresses a very small portion of the market. If you have to

k8s is nice, yes. But, by its age, no more standardized now, than MySQL was 15 years ago. k8s also adresses a very small portion of the market. If you have to scale, yes, you might need k8s. Chances are, you don't. Really. I stopped counting the (supposedly big) customers that burnt themselves into k8s when they logistically need not to, and only brought organisational issues on them.