[worldsayshi]

My hypothesis right now is that if you know Kubernetes there's no "good" reason to not choose Kubernetes even if it's "overkill". You get a lot of flexibility this way but it's potentially a huge upfront cost with many options for shooting yourself in the foot. Understanding how to configure it without getting overwhelmed currently takes a lot of experience.

You can run Kubernetes for cheap on a single node and it seems you can configure it so that you only need to care about the configuration when you need flexibility. I think.

I get a similar feeling to how it was to set up a react project before you had create-react-app like tools. There's a lack of plug and play options that works for most use cases.

Then again I might just be sort of rationalising the amount of time I've spent on it on a personal project that doesn't really require it.