Or you can deploy on app engine, lambda, firebase, etc. Kubernetes is not the only game in town. Sometimes shipping asap is more important. As with just about

Or you can deploy on app engine, lambda, firebase, etc. Kubernetes is not the only game in town. Sometimes shipping asap is more important. As with just about anything in tech, it’s about tradeoffs. I may be biased, since I worked in devops before k8s came out, but building a decently scalable system architecture with load balancing and rolling deployments is pretty straightforward with monolithic systems. Especially since service discovery isn’t really a concern. Horizontal scaling works well in many many cases. Realistically any app simple enough to be deployed by hand with a few docker containers will not be difficult to convert to k8s anyway.