[subhajeet2107]

What about standardisation that comes with using a framework like kubernetes , while not using k8s you end up with adhoc deployment methods, clunky work arounds of handling networking, policies, secrets etc, with Kubernetes or even ECS it signals that the team or the developer is looking to use fixed set of rules for infrastructure, also k8s scales well even for smaller apps

[adastra22]

Seriously, I use k8s for the same reason I use docker: it's a standard language for deployment. Yeah I could do the same stuff manually for a small project.. but why?

[p_l]

Last year I tried to "simplify" by doing things mostly the old way (though we used containers for a bunch of things later on).

The experience pushed me to decide "never again" and to plonk k3s or at least something like podman from the start on the server.