Would you use Kubernetes in your startup?

I would go with the simplest solution that lets you ship. For basic web apps, I find k8s is overkill.

However, once you need service discovery, secret management, auto scaling, etc k8s is the least bad solution I’ve found. I ended up using GKS but that was before AWS released a competitor.

K8 on a cloud provider, yes. Self hosted k8s hell no.

No, it's overkill. Focus on the product, not the infrastructure. You can switch later if / when it becomes necessary.

k8s is ready. If your company is just starting up it's probably not ready for k8s.

Unless you're a PaaS company with a large SRE or Ops team off the bat you likely own't have the resources to maintain a k8s cluster. It's a great piece of tech but it's quite complex and has a decent amount of overhead. So unless you happen to have an expert already on your team or your already have a bunch of services it's probably not worth the effort.

No.

We do use it. It’s fine.

No. Not for 1.0