I've also found that docker-compose provides the ideal level of abstraction for most solo founders / small teams / early stage companies and projects. Unless y

I've also found that docker-compose provides the ideal level of abstraction for most solo founders / small teams / early stage companies and projects. Unless you're already extremely experienced with Kubernetes, or are in the very rare scenario where you truly have no choice but to rapidly, massively scale very early on, I'd say it's probably typically a mistake to start a brand new project with Kubernetes instead of something lighter like docker-compose. (The only other reason, I suppose, would be if you just intrinsically really want to learn it and don't have growth as your primary goal at that time. Just be sure to fully understand the opportunity cost.)