The dream is to be able to take a software and yeet it into the cloud with minimal effort. That's not kubernetes at all. That said, if your tooling or products

The dream is to be able to take a software and yeet it into the cloud with minimal effort. That's not kubernetes at all. That said, if your tooling or products or software supports kubernetes, which a lot more are these days, then it becomes a lot easier. A lot of companies these days are saying "Here's how to install it, or just grab this helm chart"; Gitlab, for example. We even had one piece of software we were testing which only had two options: cloud-hosted, or self-hosted on k8s. Nothing else was supported. k8s doesn't seem to be any easier to configure, with the possible exception of microk8s (which has its own issues), but the amount of things you can do with it once it's up and running is compelling.