[Stormwalker]

I have read that this article isn't about k8s, but in my experience, companies that try to avoid k8s in favor of other specialized solutions are leaning more into premature optimisations. The company that used Nomad spent weeks in analisys of simple auth service, but every company that used k8s, went with whatever and moved on.

[ramraj07]

There are other options.

You can use elastic beanstalk, and RDS. You get scaling, reliability and backups. And it’s not complicated and you can set up easy CICD with just GitHub actions.

If you don’t need scaling, just use lightsail and litestream.

There are many many options to do things simply.

[Stormwalker]

You just showcased my point! People would spend weeks in search for solutions that implement part of required functionality, instead of using whatever they're most familiar with and move on.