[moribvndvs]

> These servers were difficult to maintain, monitor, upgrade etc and a number of solutions were developed by system administrators to work with them. It all though felt very cumbersome

There’s a lot of irony saying this about bare metal vis-à-vis k8s. Maintaining individual servers isn’t difficult, doing it at scale with high availability and the requirement of upfront investment (hardware, colo, staffing, etc.) is. Doing k8s at scale isn’t a walk in the park or a cheap date either, though.

[s3rg4fts]

It most definitely is not, you are right! I think the main difference IMO is that by paying that price with k8s I at least have something that resembles an application platform and I can easily ship containers, deploy my app and not deal with hardware so much as I'd have to do in the past deploying to servers.

But, as mentioned, I only see it as a developer. My end product with k8s resembles something that's closer to my development tools than what I'd have maintaining a series of servers and using other tools to deploy apps onto.