Because k8s gives you lots of other things out of the box like easy scaling of apps etc. Harder to do on VM:s where you would either have to dedicate one VM per

Because k8s gives you lots of other things out of the box like easy scaling of apps etc. Harder to do on VM:s where you would either have to dedicate one VM per app (might be a waste of resources) or you have to try and deploy and run multiple apps on multiple VM:s etc. (For the record I’m not a k8s fanatic. Most of the time a regular VM is better. But a VM isn’t = a kubernetes cluster).