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I am not sure the argument "muhh k8s is too complex, I will roll docker instead" flies well in the age of cloud managed k8s offerings

EKS is literally one click of a button away and you dont need to handroll this.

even if you dont know AWS console nor terraform, claude code with aws mcp can do that for you

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The problem I have with Kunernetes in general is that everything is slow and configuring everything seems needlessly complex in common use cases.

I worked at a place (a big name in a given vertical!), where the SRE looked at K8S and said "hold my beer".

Out came Docker, dnsmasq, miles of duct tape and a whole lot of swearing. Just to come nowhere close to reinventing something better folks were doing years prior.

Just because you can (or think you can) doesn't mean you should. I sure do hope no one is maintaining that NIH monstrosity now!

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