Don't use Kubernetes yet
The question of whether to use K8s or not is like wondering what kind of saw you should use to cut wood. There's different saws for different purposes. But even with the right saw, you still have to know how to use it correctly. Better to use a hand saw correctly than a table saw incorrectly. (you <i>can</i> use a table saw incorrectly, but best case the work ends up crap, worst case you lose a finger)<p>After building infrastructure for dozens of teams, I'm quite convinced of the following:<p>- if your people aren't very skilled, they won't build anything well. most software engineers i've seen professionally working in the cloud are handymen trying to build a wood cabinet.<p>- if your people can't build well, it doesn't matter what technology they use. choosing between building a cabinet out of metal or cherry wood doesn't make much difference if they've never built a cabinet before.<p>- if the first two holds: then only use the technology which requires the least skill to use well, and where the amount of maintenance is closest to zero. don't build a wood cabinet from scratch when you can buy flat pack. don't buy flat pack when you can buy an assembled cabinet, get it shipped, and carried into your office.<p>- if using the aforementioned technology requires 'building' or 'assembling', and that is not core to the customer-facing aspect of your product, then you should not be building, you should be buying. if your business doesn't involve assembling flat pack furniture, don't ask your employees to build their own desks and chairs from Home Depot or Ikea parts. buy the premade desk and chairs, use them to make your actual product.<p>- a software engineer knows as much about cloud architecture as a fine woodworker knows about framing. "it's all just wood" until the house takes 10x as long to frame and is 10x as expensive and still doesn't meet code.<p>- people <i>will</i> try to build things they don't fully understand and leave the company before anyone realizes the mess they've made. imagine your retail store is accessible by driving a car over a wooden bridge built by a handyman.