> For reference, the primary market for Kubernetes is orgs with over 1,000 developers that just can't make deployments to virtual machines work cost effectively any more
Is there a source for this statement?
Is there a source for this statement?
Its origins started in Google, which has thousands of developers, and it is roughly speaking a clone of their Borg system, which, again, was designed for that scale.
In my recent experience a ton of tiny startups which should be using Heroku etc are running Kubernetes for no other reason than engineer ego and "that's what the big boys are doing".
And you say Heroku, "etc", but the thing is that there is very little heroku-like alternative. What "etc" is there really?
The real alternative is a Linux VM with docker-compose.
Once you outgrow that, managed kubernetes is the logical next step, even for a small team.