[thunderbong]

That's practically 99% of the time really. Even in enterprise scenarios Kubernetes is very, very rarely required.

I've yet to come across a single instance where such rapid scaling happens and stays consistently high.

Most of the time you know well in advance when your resources will be put to the test.

[pgwhalen]

I’m not trying to defend kubernetes complexity or saying it should be used for deployment of all server-side software, but I’d push back on the oft-repeated idea that kubernetes is just solving for scale. It’s a model of deployment that happens to make scaling easy, but the model has many advantages other than scale.