It's not that Kubernetes is simple (it's not), but Kubernetes is relatively simple compared to the task it accomplishes. If you have containers that need to be

It's not that Kubernetes is simple (it's not), but Kubernetes is relatively simple compared to the task it accomplishes. If you have containers that need to be scheduled and networked and supplied with storage and exposed to the internet across a large set of machines past the scale where you can easily do so with tools like docker-compose, Kubernetes (might) be for you. There's a good chance it will be simpler to understand and reason about than the homegrown kludge you could make to do the same thing, especially once you understand the core design around reconciliation loops. That said, you might not need all that, and then you probably shouldn't use Kubernetes.