I wouldn't go so far as "no valid reason", but yeah, it is always fun to come on HN and see how everyone using k8s is just doing "resume-driven development" and

I wouldn't go so far as "no valid reason", but yeah, it is always fun to come on HN and see how everyone using k8s is just doing "resume-driven development" and mindless automatons manipulated by "marketing." I always find it amusing because a lot of these takes seem like thy are at least 5 years out of date. If you are on any one of the major cloud vendors, setting up a k8s cluster is almost trivial at this point. And that comes with a fully-managed control plane and a vibrant ecosystem of drop-in solutions for common deployment patterns. Do you always need k8s? Of course not, but it really is getting to the point where all but the most trivial of deployments could benefit from running on k8s. Are there other ways to do it? Sure, but the complexity of using k8s has been sanded down through widespread adoption and really nice tooling.