What I think K8S (EKS, GKE, DO hosted environments at least) provide is a nice way to integrate things like Gitlab. This gives you a really easy to use CI/CD pi

What I think K8S (EKS, GKE, DO hosted environments at least) provide is a nice way to integrate things like Gitlab. This gives you a really easy to use CI/CD pipeline for very little work and configuration. This allows you to deploy production from your main branch and spin up feature branches that can be tested by the people that requested the feature very easily. This does not require an additional effort once the system is setup. Also you can get red/green deployments and rolling deployments with little to no effort, which can be very nice, nice to have.