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Not sure Kubernetes hype is going down anytime soon, what is the alternative? A bunch of windows servers in a cluster? Good luck with that. One of the problems is that k8s tutorials often end up installing a silly app, and then yes… k8s is overkill for that. But autodeploying infrastructure from a repository with a private registry including other readily available tools for metrics and secrets is a big feat.

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I'm having to deal with multiple applications that are essentially an API that consolidate responses from a couple of other services.

Each one is it's own container, with all the baggage that comes along with configuring your helm charts, managing egress, dealing with people who want to manage security with IP address references, etc. Considering how simple a lot of these things are they should be a serverless function until the point is reached where there is a strategic advantage to the overhead of managing K8s.

I would say that >50% will never reach that stage and all that it is adding is overhead of configuration, and overhead of managing the container security.

Nomad[1] is one alternative that gives you the same infra-as-code warm and fuzzies but isn't a behemoth like k8s. It's simple to deploy, simple to operate and unless you're truly scaling big, it probably does everything you need.

I'm sure there are others in the same league that I don't know about. Maybe I'm just getting old but I'll never understand the rush to use k8s in teams of <100 developers.

[1] https://www.nomadproject.io/

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