> I've never come across a devops person who'd say "Hey, that sofware is too simple to prematurely scale for sudden spikes of irrational amounts of traffic, so

> I've never come across a devops person who'd say "Hey, that sofware is too simple to prematurely scale for sudden spikes of irrational amounts of traffic, so why not just deploy it on a cheap vps?" I work on the Ops side partially, and our platforms are defined by the highest level of complexity we need to support. That is to say that your basic web app can run on k8s, but that auto-scaling, messaged-based behemoth that 85% of the business flows through will not. So I can either support k8s, or I can support k8s _and_ old-school rsync deployments to VPS' The complexity of running a basic web app on k8s is entirely too high, but the cost of keeping an entirely separate deployment/monitoring/oncall/permissions stack for VPS' is worse. Better hope your monitoring vendor has an agent that can run in a VPS' on the OS you want, or you're back to running Nagios yourself. If at least 1 group is going to write an app that runs on k8s, you might as well run most of the company on k8s. Otherwise you're either going to manage 2 separate stacks, and/or try to write an abstraction layer that will probably itself resemble k8s.