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> these steps would rarely be same between companies or even between different teams in the same company.

And the quality can differ a lot too. I used to think that k8s is not necessary, since our team has mastered both stateless and stateful app deployment on VM, with ansible calling aws/gcp API. Everything just works.

And then I joined another company, which has a hotchpotch of unorthodox terraform and ansible code and a homebrew service discovery layer, with frequent incidents in the early mornings, especially on weekends, when autoscaling of aws/gcp VM would fail due to a myriad of reasons.

With k8s, there is a minimum quality.