People say this every time anything related to k8s gets posted and I always wonder who it’s addressed to. The system doesn’t actually have to be that complex for kubernetes to be useful and kubernetes isn’t that hard to run. We’re in the process of switching from ecs to kubernetes and while it’s not an easy thing to make ready for production, it enables so much that wouldn’t even be possible with ecs.

To me this advice is only useful for tiny startups running a handful of web servers.