[stephenhuey]

I think grumpy old man knows about the drawbacks with VMs, but grumpy old man also knows that for his particular service k8s has drawbacks. Grumpy old man is thinking that if his particular service goes down, some users just tell him it's not working and it's not a huge problem like people are losing $10 million per hour because of it. And in the event that happens sometime in the next 23 months (if it happens at all) he'll just do that little manual process for a couple more VMs, and that's all the time he'll spend on it. Contrast that with the time it would take to get it ready for k8s and keep someone around who understands k8s well enough to take care of it, even though their need for it might be so low.

[ChainOfFools]

And grumpy old man also knows that compared to the 5-year overhead costs of some overcomplicated k8s system, it's quite reasonable to overprovision the bejesus at the colo bare metal>hypervisor layer as cheap insurance.