> Long story short, it was way too much of a pain in the ass.
Kubernetes has a model for how your infrastructure and services should behave. If you stray outside that model, then you'll be fighting k8s the entire way and it will be painful.
If however you design your services and infrastructure to be within that model, then k8s simplifies many things (related to deployment).
The biggest issue I have with k8s as a developer is that while it simplifies the devops side of things, it complicates the development/testing cycle by adding an extra layer of complication when things go wrong.
Kubernetes has a model for how your infrastructure and services should behave. If you stray outside that model, then you'll be fighting k8s the entire way and it will be painful.
If however you design your services and infrastructure to be within that model, then k8s simplifies many things (related to deployment).
The biggest issue I have with k8s as a developer is that while it simplifies the devops side of things, it complicates the development/testing cycle by adding an extra layer of complication when things go wrong.