[donaldguy]

Mostly the answer is "if you want to do it all yourself, go for it";

Things like this, and especially Kubernetes, are about creating a common and agreed upon language for infrastructure - both patterns and specific "off the shelf" applications

It's very nice to be able to start a Proof of Concept data pipeline with `helm install incubator/kafka` (https://github.com/kubernetes/charts/tree/master/incubator/k...)

And likewise the common language/interface creates opportunities for wider coverage and easier adoption in tooling for monitoring, autoscaling, smart routing (see "service mesh"es), etc.

You may not need all of k8s functionality immediately but it's the agreed upon common core for modern distributed systems functionality

And to everyone's credit it's also being done pretty much as modularly and extensiblely as we could hope for