Not at all. If you know Kubernetes well and your needs are fairly simple it takes no time at all.
On a project a couple of years ago my cofounder and I opted to use Kubernetes after running into constant frustration after following the advice to keep it as simple as possible and just use VMs.
Kubernetes makes many complicated things very easy and lets you stop worrying about your infra (provided you’re using a managed provider).
On our next project we used a PaaS offering because we had a bunch of credits for it and it was painful in comparison to what we had with Kubernetes. It was way more expensive (if we didn’t have credits), the deployments were slow, and we had less flexibility.
Kubernetes isn’t perfect, far from it. But for those who know it well it is usually a good option.
On a project a couple of years ago my cofounder and I opted to use Kubernetes after running into constant frustration after following the advice to keep it as simple as possible and just use VMs.
Kubernetes makes many complicated things very easy and lets you stop worrying about your infra (provided you’re using a managed provider).
On our next project we used a PaaS offering because we had a bunch of credits for it and it was painful in comparison to what we had with Kubernetes. It was way more expensive (if we didn’t have credits), the deployments were slow, and we had less flexibility.
Kubernetes isn’t perfect, far from it. But for those who know it well it is usually a good option.