A Manager’s Guide to Kubernetes Adoption
For the life of me I can’t figure out why I would recommend Kubernetes to any company who is already on AWS. Except for the custom stuff, you should probably used a managed equivalent and for the custom parts where you need HA, scalability, etc. just use regular old ECS or Fargate for Serverless Docker. Heck even simpler, sometimes is just to use a bunch of small VMs and bring them up or down based on a schedule, number of messages in a queue, health checks, etc and throw them behind an autoscaling group.<p>I’m not familiar with Azure or GCP, but they have to have more easily managed offerings than K8s.<p>If you’re on prem - that’s a different use case but my only experience being responsible for the complete architecture of an on prem solution was small enough that a combination of Consul&#x2F;Nomad&#x2F;Vault&#x2F;Fabio made sense. It gave us the flexibility to mix Docker containers, raw executables, shell scripts, etc.<p>That being said, for both Resume Driven Development reasons and because we might be able to find people who know what they were doing, if I had to do another on prem implementation that called for it, I would probably lean toward K8s.