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by reacharavindh 1744 days ago
This is the proper reason why so many orgs are considering/using something as complex as Kubernetes. It is not such a easy comparison of 10 servers running K8S versus 6 servers running KVM. There is more to it. Once you do config management, safe deployment mechanisms, observability setup, network management, secrets, RBAC, identity mgmt etc the "just a few servers running Linux" setup looks almost as complicated as Kubernetes and you've created a bespoke setup that only you know how to operate. If you go the Kubernetes route, sure there are bells and whistles that are not needed for your use case, but it standardises the operations such that you can hire a new team member and supply K8S documentation to them and expect them to do things in your infra setup.

It is a choice. I have personally moved on from the "Kubernetes is never a good choice over running things yourselves" camp.