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I think this post misses the point of where kubernetes brings value the most: multi-team environments. If you are a single-team, then nomad, non-distributed docker, systemd units, etc is probably a better choice today due to the operational complexity of running Kubernetes (GKE,AKS,EKS do lower the complexity, but you still need kubernetes experts on call)

However if you are in an organization with multiple teams (as are the vast majority of developers) then Kubernetes provides a common language for deploying, operating and securing your applications which enables you to go from a process which could takes days, weeks or even months to provision and configure a VM to minutes or hours to provision a kubernetes namespace.