i still believe most of the companies are better off with just deploying containers on vm's with autoscaling groups with a LB in front of it and some kind of te

i still believe most of the companies are better off with just deploying containers on vm's with autoscaling groups with a LB in front of it and some kind of terraform + ansible | CI-pipeline deployment to manage it. all the complexity you have to buy with dealing with k8s. you have to update it frequently, update all the charts, fix all the breaking things in a developing ecosystem, and still have to deal with the hard parts of dynamic certs, storage and network. and you would still need to dedicate "normal" vms to host databases and your monitoring and your storage because if your cluster goes down, so is your management layer. i have been with k8s since 1.3 and it is so disproportionate that i will not touch it for most of the times