[meddlepal]

I strongly disagree. I've built a couple in house PaaS type systems in the past with various degrees of success on more classical tech like straight up EC2 using a variety of Terraform/Ansible/CloudFormation/Scripting but the dev experience has always been painful compared to Kubernetes.

Developers really love working with Kubernetes. It doesn't take a lot to get started and if you're not doing anything too crazy it is a huge productivity boon IMO.

Where things get hairy is persistence, but that's the case regardless of Kubernetes or not.

[auslander]

>Terraform/Ansible/CloudFormation/Script

This number of tools speaks for itself. Yeah, you would be better off with out of the box stuff due to lack of skills.

[meddlepal]

Ah yes, you're right. I am sure you have a much better understanding of the requirements each of these build outs sitting behind your keyboard over there.