[vitalus]

Adopting any piece of technology just because it's a fad or otherwise trendy is rarely a good justification.

It sounds like the primary reason you're deciding to move away from it is because you don't face any of the problems that it's there to solve, rather than it being an operational burden.

[EdwardDiego]

To be fair, k8s imposes a large complexity load. So what it gives you has got to be worth the time your developers/devops/sysops will spend learning to work with it.

We're migrating to k8s, and it's fantastic for us, but we have a large complex system that we're moving into the cloud, which really benefits from k8s features - loving the horizontal pod autoscalers, especially when I can expose Kafka topic lag to them (via Prometheus) as a metric to scale certain apps on.