[davinchia]

Great points!

"If you know you're going to spend 15 hours on it, then you might as well use a system you know will cost less to extend or scale over time."

I wish younger me realised that earlier :)

"And maybe even a canned CI/CD pipeline in a container so they can start iterating on it immediately."

Definitely! Although a good number of users are surprisingly happy with their Airbyte instances on a single node.

We do have a Kubernetes offering for those looking to scale Airbyte beyond a single node. We also have Kustomise/Helm deploys for this, though I'll be the first to admit that the Helm charts are mostly community-maintained and can be improved. This is one of our (my) top priorities going into the next Quarter.