Azure AppServices are hard to beat. One-click deployments from Visual Studio, or it takes about five minutes to setup continuous deployment from git if you use a free private VSTS repo. If you want to use the tier that allows a real domain instead of the azurewebsites domain, it costs about $10/month.

Kubernetes seems like a lot of unnecessary complexity for small workloads. Kind of plinking tin cans with a nuclear bazooka. What is the break-even point where all of this stuff starts to really be worth bothering with?

You don’t, behind the scenes they use orchestrations like kubernetes or service fabric. So much easier deploying a docker container as a Azure Web App, so easy to auto scale based on thresholds of certain resources, so easy to debug what’s wrong since they give you all the tools. I use that in my current projects today.

But Azure Kubernetes in my last project was easy too, it comes with a sophisticated monitoring solution, it integrates nicely with cheap Azure Load Balancer, but still too much overhead than Azure Web App.