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The whole reasoning behind this is flawed.

“We don’t know how to scale Traefik so we went with haproxy”

Well doh. Haproxy is designed for this. You can make haproxy serve copious amount of traffic on a single arm core and a little bit of ram. Imagine what you can do with a few replicas on your large clusters.

This has nothing to do with the choice of CI/CD or docker versus kubernetes.

While I agree with you I'm not sure the rest of the world does.

Over the past decade, I'm seeing k8s used everywhere for everything, companies setting up clusters to run literally one simple app with couple of hundred requests per hour.

We do this because we need redundancy. Are there non kubernetes alternatives for HA/redundancy that are worth it?

In theory. I read so many times now where people report they use it and don't really need it, and I've seen it myself now too. Still very anecdotal, but it seems somethings there