> I seem to be in the minority that perceives it as unnecessarily complex for most tasks.

My boss recently introduced Kubernetes to our software deployment.

The first thing he said, though, is if you don't absolutely need Kubernetes, don't use it. It is extremely complicated and finicky and difficult to deploy correctly, and can bite you in subtle ways.

Then he went on to describe, for our problems, how Kubernetes was absolutely necessary to scale without constant manual intervention and configuration and deployment processes consuming our time.

I appreciated that he had thoroughly thought through the problem before adding more complexity.