I’m seeing things as you are seeing them currently. I love the idea of using Kubernetes, it sounds amazing initially, but then every single article I read abou

I’m seeing things as you are seeing them currently. I love the idea of using Kubernetes, it sounds amazing initially, but then every single article I read about it turns into some epic blog post that leaves me worried that the whole house of cards could easily come crashing down. Maybe in the future the abstraction will become rock solid, easy to install and manage and ‘just work’, but it doesn’t feel like that to me now. There’s too many ‘we had to come up with / use hack X to integrate it with software Y’. Until then, if you are on a small team with a small budget, I reckon keeping it simple is the better approach. Standard OSs with some bash scripts for provisioning, build and deploy. Even if it’s more manual work, and takes a bit longer, having an understanding of the platform you are building on is crucial. BTW if you are looking for a description of a way todo this sort of thing ‘the boring way’: Robust NodeJS Deployment Architecture https://blog.markjgsmith.com/2020/11/13/robust-nodejs-deployment-architecture.html https://blog.markjgsmith.com/2020/11/13/robust-nodejs-deploy...