[tilolebo]

The best reason to use Kubernetes (and in many cases the only reason) is to boost your employability.

It gets harder and harder to find a stack that doesn't rely on it.

At my company, we chose to use ECS/Fargate when possible. It integrates nicely with SSM Parameter Store for config and secrets, and has a simple service discovery feature based on DNS.

A few services run on EC2 + ASG, using AMIs build with Ansible and Packer.

Are we missing something by not using Kubernetes? Is the experience so amazing, compared to ECS? I don't care about vendor lock-in.

[user5994461]

Author here. It's all about employability indeed and it's sad many other commenters don't seem to grasp that.

DevOps/SRE jobs are full on discriminating for kubernetes experience, not docker, and preferably on their exact stack AWS ECS, EKS, GKE, etc... it can get real tough as a job seeker if you're not on it.