[oceanplexian]

Kubernetes is popular because it solves problems at a certain scale. It's not for super small environments because you need a number of infrastructure engineers to manage it. But if you have a few hundred or thousand employees and don't want to write your own orchestration, it makes sense.

That said, it's a questionable design choice when you get to a hyperscale environment, since all the primitives are extremely opinionated and have design and scalability issues with service discovery, networking, and so on. All the controllers had to be rewritten, we had to roll our own deployment system, our own service discovery system, our own load balancing, and so on. But if you reach this level, you're probably making a lot of money and can figure out how to solve your problems.