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It's funny because OPs solution was his docker-compose-anywhere, which is exactly what, from my experience, I've seen so many start-ups running with. Sure it works while you're running an MVP but it's incredibly brittle for running something in production as soon as the application grows in complexity. IMO the primary draw of k8s isn't necessarily "infinite scalability" but its resilience.

I sometimes wonder how many of these post boil down to "I don't want to learn k8s can I just use this thing I already know?".