> k8 and spend a whole bunch of time on it. I fully agree and no one said that you should do it. But these days there's so many abstraction layers that it's n

> k8 and spend a whole bunch of time on it. I fully agree and no one said that you should do it. But these days there's so many abstraction layers that it's not nearly as complicated as it was 2 years ago. 2 years ago I wouldn't have even considered it, but now it might be on the table. > from the get-go? Did you spend a whole bunch of time learning it or did someone else pay you? Yup. Business SaaS product that had day and night use. No investment, no one paid me. Became "ramen profitable" year 2 but it's not much. I'm not interested in growing it any more for various reasons and right now it's just "side income". > However this is the crux. You're most likely having someone else pay for hosting. You're probably getting someone else to pay for you to learn how to do XYZ. Most likely you're not even aware of how much this infra is costing the client. Might be so but not in my case. I pay for everything and customers pay me a monthly fee depending on different params that aren't even very closely tied to how much it costs me. > However the person who posted the question was a solo-founder trying to understand whether to learn Docker. When I started, I was a solo founder too. Have you looked into caprover? I came across it recently and it looks really interesting. It uses docker internally but it seems to be a somewhat mature product and has so many nice bells and whistles. Best of all, very little time investment (or so they promise). If I was restarting today, I would look into that. It would help me run everything without relying on AWS/GCP and will end up being cheaper if everything works as advertised.