I feel most places over complicate K8s. The foundational ideas are sane, especially with managed k8s in GCE, AKS, Digital Ocean e.t.c The basic idea is that of

I feel most places over complicate K8s. The foundational ideas are sane, especially with managed k8s in GCE, AKS, Digital Ocean e.t.c The basic idea is that of "be like this spec" via a yaml/json file - a controller is continuously monitoring an object and making adjustments until spec matches actual. I've seen many startups have one person who sets up and maintains their k8s cluster. If you know what you're doing, it has pretty solid ROI.