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> For over 90% of workloads kubernetes is an overkill. Only when company is reaching google scale kubernetes make sense.

I hear people repeating this truism all day, but from practical experience, it doesn't seem to be the case - Kubernetes is paying dividends even in small single-node setups.

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K8s single noder and GKE user here, can confirm I wouldn't remotely even consider going back. Deploying an app takes 5-10 minutes at most first time around, new pushes <1 minute, and when there is ops bullshit involved, it is never wasted work, and never needs to be repeated twice.

I hated Kubernetes ops complexity at first, but there really isn't that much to it, and if it's too much, a service like GKE takes 70%+ of it away from you

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