Slightly off topic: I use Google Cloud’s built in auto-scaling for instance groups, and I’m very happy with it. It offers a reasonable GUI, and a way for me to

Slightly off topic: I use Google Cloud’s built in auto-scaling for instance groups, and I’m very happy with it. It offers a reasonable GUI, and a way for me to scale VM instances up and down based on e.g. CPU usage. It seems to do 80% of what I want at 5% the complexity of Kubernetes. What I miss the most is having my infrastructure defined as code, instead of via the GUI. But given that I have only four services (out of which two use preemptible VMs and only one needs to scale) it’s not really a problem — it wouldn’t take me many minutes to replicate this setup at another cloud provider.