[archenemybuntu]

Kubernetes itself is built around mostly solid distributed system principles.

It's the ecosystem around it which turns things needlessly complex.

Just because you have kubernetes, you don't necessarily need istio, helm, Argo cd, cilium, and whatever half baked stuff is pushed by CNCF yesterday.

For example take a look at helm. Its templating is atrocious, and if I am still correct, it doesn't have a way to order resources properly except hooks. Sometimes resource A (deployment) depends on resource B (some CRD).

The culture around kubernetes dictates you bring in everything pushed by CNCF. And most of these stuff are half baked MVPs.

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The word devops has created expectations that back end developer should be fighting kubernetes if something goes wrong.

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Containerization is done poorly by many orgs, no care about security and image size. That's a rant for another day. I suspect this isn't a big reason for kubernetes hate here.