I’m just sitting down to do a new startup, but I’ve been out of the devops game for a few years. I feel behind.

What tools/platforms/hosts should I use?

The system will be your standard API+Database+Event bus+workers. I’m a fan of digital ocean and I’ve never bothered to learn AWS (besides S3). I’m very familiar with docker compose, but I’ve never gone deeper than that.

This is a first year startup, we aren’t cost constrained but we are extremely time sensitive.

Should I use Kubernetes? Or Is there something easier that will better serve us the first year?