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> How? Just use AppService / EC2 for managed machines. Scales just as well.

It's not about scaling. It's about being able to make a docker image, run that locally on your developer laptop (even if it's a mac) and running the exact same thing in production. Sure you can use docker on top of EC2 but why would you? Just use the ready to go solution you can just buy (managed k8s) and avoid the lock-in. Again, it's critical that you use managed k8s. Don't roll it yourself on top of EC2.

> You need a DB most of the time. Managed DBs are easier.

Sure. Using k8s for your app isn't stopping you from doing that if you want. We deploy 1 database server per testing environment, which kubernetes makes easy to do. For production we use a managed database, but they're too expensive for testing environments.

> Our crapware doesn't freeze. Needs a custom Health Check endpoint. Can just as easily restart the instance when that check fails.

Mine doesn't either. But I have to run plenty of software that isn't mine.

> K8S is a ton of extra overhead for no gain

If you used managed k8s you're just trading server management for kubernetes resource management. I've migrated our system from Ansible + Cloud VMs to kubernetes several years ago, after running it for years before, and things have become significantly easier to maintain and our costs are roughly the same as before. Less vendor lock-in, too. It would take me an about an afternoon to switch between any of the major managed kubernetes offerings, and some of our clients have expressed preferences for a specific cloud.

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Hey, thanks for the reply. I am being slow because it looks like if comments are deeply nested, the "reply" cooldown gets longer, so I am just replying now.

We use .NET/React for the most part, so I haven't had an issue with Mac/PC - we have multiple teams and, for example, a team helping is all on Macs - they can run stuff fine from bash. Azure Data Studio let's them access Postgres (and would let them access SQL Server) if needed. React only has issues with file pathing sometimes, so most of the time it's fine. I find that devs also get lost in setting up Docket/K8S locally, especially when people roll scripts to set up the whole environment in one command.

Still, I am genuinely arguing to help me fill the gaps where I might be incorrect, so I really appreciate your replies.