It's interesting (so far) that none of the comments have addressed the core question. Why is k8s even needed here? Many connects are focused on how it could ha

It's interesting (so far) that none of the comments have addressed the core question. Why is k8s even needed here? Many connects are focused on how it could have been solved with the given setup. It's as though using k8s is the default conclusion, and that might actually be the problem. Even in the author's post, their reason for choosing a hosting provider was related to k8s. I'm not familiar with HN architecture. I agree with your sentiment, IMO there was no need to involve k8s here, keep the implementation simple and grow from there.