I tend to agree. K8s makes a lot of sense if you are running your own bare metal servers at scale.
If you are already using the cloud, maybe leverage abstraction already available in that context.
If you are already using the cloud, maybe leverage abstraction already available in that context.
Vanilla Kubernetes is just enough abstraction to avoid both of those situations.
It can be cheaper to depend on cloud provider to ship some features, but with tools like crossplane you can abstract that out so developers can just "order" a database service etc. for their application.
None of that is prevented with SLA
Arguably if you can’t evaluate the raw cloud offerings and jump on a supposed silver bullet you need to stop immediately.
And with smaller companies I tend to find k8s way more cost effective. I pulled things I wouldn't be able to fit in a budget otherwise.
A few months later I transitioned the team to use containers with proper CI/CD and EKS with Terraform and Argo CD. The team and also the managers like it, since we could deploy quite quickly.