The answer, as with everything, is going to be that it depends on your situation and use-case. If you have a bunch of engineers who are already familiar with K8

The answer, as with everything, is going to be that it depends on your situation and use-case. If you have a bunch of engineers who are already familiar with K8s then using a different implementation just because others told you to doesn't make much sense. But if you're choosing K8s because you want a good future foundation, in dreams of 'scale', then you should stop and really consider what it is that you need from K8s. Most people I've seen who's infrastructure succeeds with K8s only moved to it as a necessity, usually away from some monolithic structure, they didn't start there. Build what you need, and only that much, not for some future need that might not come.