I'm a sysadmin and dev with 10+ years of experience, I've literally written my own cluster container management system, and I've spent probably a hundred hours

I'm a sysadmin and dev with 10+ years of experience, I've literally written my own cluster container management system, and I've spent probably a hundred hours learning and using kubernetes for months with dozens of services. After a few months I switched everything back to docker compose because it wasn't worth the complexity for our small sized company. k8s is not a magic bullet, it's an incredibly dense and nuanced piece of technology that is only the right solution for a certain class of problems.