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I fully agree that setting up Kubernetes is a lot of work, but I think people forget how much work it is to set up anything maintainable for more than a few services running on a handful of services.

The nice thing about Kubernetes is that it’s probably not much harder (if at all) than the alternative (assuming you already know which tools to use to compose your bespoke platform) and you can easily find online resources and support (never mind all of the problems you don’t run into because they’re already solved in Kubernetes).