[dewey]

When you are only used to the Kubernetes at work I can understand how people dislike it. If you set it up yourself and start with minimal feature and not lots of annotations the config files become very simple and not more complicated than a docker compose file.

It quickly realized that after just using the managed Kubernetes from Digital Ocean and deploying a side project there.

[PunchyHamster]

Oh running stuff on k8s is great, but running k8s itself is just adding a lot of code to your stack and might be not so trivial to debug when something goes wrong.

Then again tools to deploy it went a long way

[dewey]

Agreed, personally I'd only do it through a hosted provider or maybe consider https://k3s.io for a bit simpler setup. I'd also only do it if Kubernetes is something I'm already familiar with.