[koffiezet]

What k8s offers is a platform, on which people can build their own solutions. It makes solving a lot of very hard problems a lot easier and portable. Before k8s, tools like these were out of reach for small/mid companies with only a handful of dev-teams, but enough for organisational scaling to become a problem. K8s allows self-servicing while still enforcing standardisation.

And I'll give you another use-case I'd like to see you replicate with any other existing platform: migrating an entire on-prem application stack of 200+ services to the cloud. It took us 3 weeks total to do for a client of mine, where the hardest part was the migrating state with minimal downtime, and a lot of work went into the IAC part for the GKE setup.

Also, institutions like banks have now jumped on the k8s (well, mostly openshift, but same thing) train, I'm pretty sure it's here to stay.