When compared to a Linode VPS box that you provision and setup with Ansible yes, it's much more work (and much more cryptic at that) but also Kubernetes covers

When compared to a Linode VPS box that you provision and setup with Ansible yes, it's much more work (and much more cryptic at that) but also Kubernetes covers for a lot of failure scenarios that a simple Linux box would not be able to cope with while adding many other benefits. The question is: do _you_ need this added complexity? That humble VPS can scale _a lot_ too.