- Who’s at the Helm? [0] - Microservices, hard as 1, 2, 3 - You can move it but complexity is still here [1] - Microservices — architecture nihilism in minimalism's clothes [2] - Do I Really Need Kubernetes? [3] - Your team might not need Kubernetes [4]
I doubt that any of those articles could convince higher management. I don't know what a "respected source" actually means. I general I believe that advice from consulting agency and cloud providers should be taken with a grain of salt.
If you drew the same conclusion from the "Who’s at the Helm?" article than I, there is only one way out which is a curated container catalog. VMware's Tanzu Application Catalog [5] is the only product in that space I'm aware of. I have quoted the price tag on HN, I think it was removed since that, so I won't repeat it here again. In any way it was magnitudes higher than the EKS base price which already seen as a showstopper by many small shops. Bottom line is: it is really hard and really expensive to operate containers in a secure manner. Probably too hard and too expensive that it would be a good idea to start with it before you actually need it.
0: https://dlorenc.medium.com/whos-at-the-helm-1101c37bf0f1 1: https://medium.com/@danielpetisme/microservices-hard-as-1-2-... 2: https://vlfig.me/posts/microservices 3: https://thenewstack.io/do-i-really-need-kubernetes/ 4: https://medium.com/faun/your-team-might-not-need-kubernetes-... 5: https://tanzu.vmware.com/application-catalog