I went down that road a few years ago. Dockerized my app because I figured that was the first step. Then naturally docker-compose to bring the pieces together,

I went down that road a few years ago. Dockerized my app because I figured that was the first step. Then naturally docker-compose to bring the pieces together, right? No. Was upset that was not the next step to Kubernetifying an app. Use Kustomize instead. It's not that bad. Did take days or a few weekends but it requires very little maintenance now and its easy to spin up new apps.