Kubernetes is a great idea but I’m not sure it’s the end state of DIY infra, unless it’s willing to evolve more, which I haven’t seen much effort towards.<p>The complexity can be hard to manage, there is a continuous overhead in running a cluster, and the abstractions are growing comparatively weak.<p>Take running a basic web app, you almost certainly will use a cloud database rather than one on k8s. So now the developer needs to use terraform to provision a cloud dev then k8s to run the app. This is a huge problem point at my current organization, it’s too complicated for most developers.<p>It’s like k8s aims to abstract everything but then just kinda fails at doing the most basic things simply.<p>Also justifying running your own services vs using the cloud is increasingly hard. We will likely need a hybrid model in the future.<p>That all being said k8s still does some things very well like running and linking lots of apps together.