When a Small Team Should (and Shouldn't) Adopt Kubernetes
Kubernetes has become the default answer to almost every infrastructure question. Read a few conference talks or job postings, and it can feel like running anything else is a mistake. But Kubernetes was built at Google scale, for problems most small teams do not have yet.
For a team of three to fifteen engineers, adopting Kubernetes too early can cost months of productivity. Adopting it too late can leave you stuck with fragile deployments. This post gives you a practical way to decide.
What Kubernetes Actually Gives You
Kubernetes is a container orchestrator. It schedules containers across machines, restarts them when they fail, rolls out new versions gradually, scales them up and down, and gives them a consistent way to find each other on the network.
Those are real benefits. But each one comes with something you have to learn, configure, and maintain: networking, ingress, storage, RBAC, secrets, upgrades, monitoring,...
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