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That company that hires 10 engineers to create a bespoke orchestration system will inevitably end up re-inventing a buggy, poorly specified implementation of Kubernetes.

Kubernetes gives a standardized set of abstractions and concepts that means hiring and development is easier, not harder.

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Not really, they will just end up using managed services in AWS. Kubernetes exists (in the eyes of the corp) only as a tool that avoids vendor lock-in.

Cloud “value added services” ie, all but elastic VM, networking and storage, are typically very poor compared to whatever you can find in k8s just one helm install away.

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