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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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