> If this advice is common, no wonder some people think K8s is over complicated I mean, if even Google who were behind it in the first place, are saying it's c

> If this advice is common, no wonder some people think K8s is over complicated I mean, if even Google who were behind it in the first place, are saying it's complicated and have 3 levels of managed Kubernetes services, I'd say it's pretty clear to everyone it is indeed complicated. Some of the complexity is simply due to the complex problems it solves, some is footguns, some is layers upon layers of abstractions to glue around design deficiencies. > To anyone not aware: it _does not_ have to be this complicated. Default ingress controller and a normal Deployment will carry you really, really far You're absolutely right. However, Kubernetes is rarely chosen after a careful evaluation of requirements; it's more often than not because it's considered necessary or for resume driven development. In that case, service mesh is easy to tack on, regardless of need.