[miguelaeh]

I guess what some people do not understand is that K8s was created internally at Google, for managing their services and handling millions of users.

For new projects that, with luck, will have a couple hundred users at the beginning it is just overkilling (and also very expensive).

My approach is usually Vercel + some AWS/Hetzner instance running the services with docker-compose inside or sometimes even just a system service that starts with the instance. That's just enough. I like to use Vercel when deploying web apps because it is free for this scale and also saves me time with continuous deployment without having to ssh into the instances, fetch the new code and restart the service.