Yah, also there is a huge difference between a minimal demo and actual, recommended, canonical deployments.
I’ve seen teams waste many months refining k8s deployments only to find that local development isn’t even possible anymore.
This massive investment often happens before any business value has been uncovered.
My assertion, having spent 3 decades building startups, is that these big co infra tools are functionally a psyop to squash potential competitors before they can find PMF.
When you're comparing Kubernetes "recommended, canonical deployments" to "just launching a monolith and database on a Linux box (or two) in the corner" the latter is obviously going to seem simpler. The point is the k8s analogue of that isn't actually complicated. If you've seen teams waste months making it complicated, that was their choice.
If you’re running things differently and getting tons of value with little investment, kudos! Keep on keeping on!
What I’ve seen is that the vast majority of teams that pick up k8s also drink the micro service kool-aid and build a mountain of bullshit that costs far more than it creates.
I’ve seen teams waste many months refining k8s deployments only to find that local development isn’t even possible anymore.
This massive investment often happens before any business value has been uncovered.
My assertion, having spent 3 decades building startups, is that these big co infra tools are functionally a psyop to squash potential competitors before they can find PMF.