[rjst01]

We deploy our services on every merge (multiple times a day) from CI assuming the tests pass. But we don’t re-create our Kubernetes infra when we do that. I set up 3 Kubernetes clusters (staging, prod, internal apps) when I went full-time and have barely touched them other than to apply updates.

> does that cause any problems for you?

Nope. Our Kubernetes setup is just about as simple as it is possible to have a Kubernetes setup. I entertained the idea of going with something else, because we definitely don’t need all Kubernetes has to offer. But I settled on it because it’s what I know best and the overhead+risk of something new would have exceeded the cost of the unnecessary for us baggage that Kubernetes brings.

If our requirements were different or if I was making regular changes, we would be in a very different spot. But as it stands today it is just not a priority.