[hdjrudni]

> treat everything as cattle

The cluster isn't that hard to recreate if things go south. Everything is in YAML configs already. And since I'm managed, it's just a few clicks in DigitalOcean to create a new cluster. And actually, I think I can create clusters through their CLI too, so if I did want to automate it, it's already ready to go. So I'd say I'm cattle-ready, but too cheap to pay for more cattle.

I nearly went Docker Compose/Swarm by accident when I was just getting started. I knew I wanted to dockerize my app but then couldn't figure out how to get it into prod. Then I found out people don't actually use Docker Compose for prod it seems and eventually stumbled into Kubernetes. It took a few weeks to wrap my head around, but I'm happy with it now.

Once you have a nice set up, I'd say it's pretty simple to maintain. DevSpace is fantastic for development, and then for deployment I just wrote a little script which builds my images, updates the kustomize with new images and applies the manifests. Pretty simple.