Been using K8S, but I agree it can be overkill in a bootstrap phase. I have been at startups that launched on Heroku, Nomad, Elastic Beanstalk, and Elastic Cont

Been using K8S, but I agree it can be overkill in a bootstrap phase. I have been at startups that launched on Heroku, Nomad, Elastic Beanstalk, and Elastic Container Service. I’d recommend Heroku out of those - it’ll be cheaper than a DevOps hire until it isn’t.