[tofflos]

I jumped on the container bandwagon late and immediately fell in love with Docker. It built on my existing skill set so I was quickly able to get something up and running.

Then I started tinkering with Docker Compose and for a while things were great. But after a while I started running into issues. Compose felt artificially crippled. No secrets? No health checks? Pushing me towards Docker Swarm?

Eventually I just sucked it up and switched to Kubernetes even though I think it's overkill for my applications.

[orthoxerox]

My thoughts exactly. You cannot scale Docker. You can to a point, but there's always k8s looming ahead of you, saying, "sooner or later you will have to learn me instead". So most people learn it sooner than later to migrate to it while their workloads are still small. Of course, they often don't grow large enough for the benefits of k8s to kick in, but that's another story.