Bare metal I'd think is the first choice for a large rdbms where you have skilled dedicated personnel that can manage it. If not rather use a specialist servic

Bare metal I'd think is the first choice for a large rdbms where you have skilled dedicated personnel that can manage it. If not rather use a specialist service like RDS for anything with serious uptime/throughput requirements. k8s doesn't really make sense to me unless it's for spinning up lots of instances, like for test or dev envs or like in the article where they host DBs for people.