[rdsubhas]

I work at a large European startup. We are also heavily invested in and love kubernetes, but this is a totally apples to oranges comparison. Heroku is a PaaS and Kubernetes is a CaaS. K8s is great at what does, but to make it act like Heroku is a huge amount of effort and needs a team to manage the tooling around it. Assuming that such team is not needed, and k8s can simply be used like heroku with a bunch of extra CLI tools, usually leads to "Wild Wild West" clusters.