I disagree. There are a lot of valid reasons why a start-up might prefer Kubernetes to other solutions. A simple and good enough reason is the need for variab

I disagree. There are a lot of valid reasons why a start-up might prefer Kubernetes to other solutions. A simple and good enough reason is the need for variable compute: You might need more computing sporadically (say for example you're doing software in the sports industry; your demand changes with the number and size of events, as well as on weekends). Another reason might be a start up that allows their customers to execute some type of arbitrary code (eg a no-code product). This can vary from customer to customer, and it can also vary within the customers use cases. Imagine having to manage all these storage, networking and compute resources manually... Or going full circle and managing it with a bunch of puppet/ansible/shell scripts. Now you slap some automated scale triggers on top that fires off these scripts. Congratulations! We've built something that looks like Kubernetes; if we squint. There's some smoke coming out of it. Documentation? Lol, we don't have time for that. we are a company that gets shit done, we don't toy around with Shcubernetes and documentation! Error handling/monitoring/reporting? Eh, just read the code if something fails. Need to add cert issuance? Yeah let's implement our own ACME integration. Network ingress? Let's just have a 500line haproxy infront of an 2000line nginx config; no big deal. DNS? just append to named; who cares? The name for the "we get shit done" crowd should probably be "we don't give a shit about anything and have others solve problems we created because of our lack of thinking and foresight", but it doesn't sound quite as memorable. It's just people who are comfortable cutting corners at other people's expenses. When they have to own the shit they made, they start blaming others and leave the company. Sorry for the rant.