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What would you advise for someone who doesn't have the pre-existing k8 expertise etc?

The ops environment still looks overwhelming to me, if there's a way to do it sustainably without a really heavy-weight ops infrastructure, I haven't figured it out. Like, something that to me requires like a full-time job just to do ops, although maybe not if you've spent some years learning the ops tools, but then same same.

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I don't think diving into kubernetes makes any sense for a 1 person shop if you don't already know it. People love to evangelize about k8s more than your average tech but it's just one (IMHO overkill) way to do things. A better bet I think is to leverage tools from cloud providers. They specifically offer many different easy to use scaling platforms for a premium for small/not experienced teams. Heroku has been mentioned a bunch, something like Elastic Beanstalk on AWS is super easy for the first year or two of a company. Or just go for a single machine somewhere and worry about the 5% chance you need more than that when that happens.

Yes, this is what I would also recommend.

You can get really far with the managed services from your cloud provider.

If you're already familiar with Docker containers, just that already gives you plenty of options. I think every platform now provides a way to just run containers behind a load balancer with a few simple steps.

Yes, maybe it's a form of vendor lock-in, but if your worry is acquiring customers, and growing a company, Kubernetes is probably not helping you in this case.

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