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Should I Use Kubernetes?

Container orchestration platform for production workloads

Proceed with caution
Score
7/10

Maybe — essential at scale, but most teams adopt it way too early.

▲ Pros
  • +Self-healing, auto-scaling, and rolling deployments out of the box
  • +The standard for running containers in production at any cloud provider
  • +Declarative configuration means your infra is version-controlled and reproducible
  • +Massive ecosystem — Helm charts, operators, and service meshes for every need
▼ Cons
  • Operational complexity is immense — you need a dedicated platform team
  • YAML configuration files are verbose and error-prone
  • Costs $50-100K+/year just in engineering time to manage properly
  • Most startups under 50 engineers don't need K8s — managed PaaS is simpler

◉ Expert Perspectives

Platform EngineerGo for it

At 100+ microservices, nothing else works. K8s is complex because the problem it solves is complex.

Startup CTOThink twice

We burned 6 months and $200K building K8s infra we didn't need. Railway or Fly.io would have handled our scale for $500/month.

SRE LeadProceed with caution

Use EKS/GKE — never self-host. And don't adopt K8s until your team has at least 2 engineers who eat YAML for breakfast.

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