K8s makes small-scale hard, but large-scale easy. So no, for a 10 user app you probably won't need it, and would make your life a lot harder. But one of the th

K8s makes small-scale hard, but large-scale easy. So no, for a 10 user app you probably won't need it, and would make your life a lot harder. But one of the things many people don't grasp is that scale comes in a few forms. The obvious everyone thinks about is the millions of users thing, but from what I've seen, that's not the most important-one that k8s enables - it's the organisational thing. Enabling self-servicing for a dozen+ dev-teams, having to manage 20+ totally different applications or just a microservice platform? That's where it becomes more practical to think about Kubernetes, because it forces the applications (and everybody involved) to streamline things, and you have to treat it as cattle, not pets. Metrics, logging, monitoring, failover, zero-downtime upgrades, scaling, managing secrets, network policies, auditing and security, platform upgrades, even the "replace & scrap" kind become WAY easier to manage by a very small team of people if they know what they're doing (that's another subject though).