[aliswe]

At my last company we used k8s not primarily because of the scaling capabilities, but as a way to safely deploy applications.

[phist_mcgee]

I've seen it used this way too.

But that's like buying the mcdonalds supersize family meal because you want the fries. There's better ways to go about it.

[notepalf]

At my previous job we used docker swarm for a cluster of a dozen machines. Does not have all the fancy features of k8s but gets the job done to automate deployments

[radicaldreamer]

It might not be ideal but getting all of that admin and upgrade tooling for free is often worth it