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Yeah exactly.

There is no good solution here as in order to have a SIMPLE platform, you need to really reduce the amount of use-case you support to a couple options only. The reality is that every single company I have worked for has a ton of different services with different requirements. Those choices end up being reflected on the platform that now needs to be able to run all of them. If you have a single simple use-case then you should just run that simple use-case on a boring EC2 instance with a boring dockerd and a boring NLB in front (as an example) but the reality is that this is almost never the case.

If you have a lot of different workloads to run at scale there is no better tool than Kubernetes. The complexity comes from its power to run almost anything you want