K8s does not have to be complex. If all your doing is, hosting a bunch of various web services, it is really simple. Actually, doesn't have to be just web: you

K8s does not have to be complex. If all your doing is, hosting a bunch of various web services, it is really simple. Actually, doesn't have to be just web: you can host services that only can communicate within kubernetes, or services that monitor and manage some XYZ resource, etc.. and that will all be really simple. Even hosting redis etc.. is really straight forward. It is funny, but the complexity starts to happen where you want kubernetes to handle other stuff: like hosting databases, or other storage resources, and if you want to for some reason I will never understand have your external services essentially communicate directly with kubernetes rather than have some middleware service you pay for do that for you (like a load balancer, etc.) One thing I did have an issue with was setting up SSL... that was surprisingly stupid. Should have been much easier to do that with LetsEncrypt.