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If you don't need Kubernetes, don't use it.

Kubernetes runs more than tiny, statically linked Go apps. It also doesn't just run apps. It can schedule a wide variety of workloads in a cluster, managed their persistent storage, apply disruption policies, autoscale pods based on load or custom metrics, it can set up load balancing, it can run batch jobs, it can run time-scheduled jobs, it can control network traffic, it handles DNS lookups... the list goes on.

Kubernetes isn't particularly complex, but what complexity it does have can be explained. Any attempt to provide the same functionality will ultimately reinvent Kubernetes.