The idea that something of the monstrous complexity of k8s is easy is pretty funny to me. I think if you have less than than 2 full time experts on k8s at hand,

The idea that something of the monstrous complexity of k8s is easy is pretty funny to me. I think if you have less than than 2 full time experts on k8s at hand, you're basically nuts if you use it for some non-toy project. In my experience, you can and will experience interesting failure scenarios. If you don't have state, why not just either use something serverless/fully-managed (beanstalk, lambda, cloudflare workers whatever) if you really need to scale up and down (or have very limited devops/sysadmin capacity) or deploy like 2 or 3 bare metal machines or VMs? Either sounds like a lot less work to manage and troubleshoot than some freaking k8s cluster.