It really depends on what you're going to run and what experience you have. Personally, I would run k8s from the day I expect to run the code as separate deplo

It really depends on what you're going to run and what experience you have. Personally, I would run k8s from the day I expect to run the code as separate deployment to running it from my IDE. I have the skills to do so, and I found I lose way less time doing so than trying to do "classic" server setup, even if it's just one server.