[reacharavindh]

Would you say that you would be happier if you put a bunch of websites/web applications behind a load balancer like haproxy - all in a few VMs or even bare-metal servers instead of taking on the complexity of Kubernetes?

No snark or pushing opinion; I’m genuinely wondering how it is from someone who went through this path.

As a sysadmin who cares more about the reliability of services, still managing critical services outside of Kubernetes, I’m wondering what I’m missing out with Kubernetes.

[Apocalypse_666]

Infinitely happier, because if something goes wrong, you can usually figure out what it was, and fix it or even prevent it from happening again.

Sure, the blue-green automatic deployment in k8s is cool, but a bit of clever Ansible scripting should get you there as well. It might be more busywork, but the amount of time spent nursing my k8s cluster in no way amount to time saving