Introducing Kubernetes within an organization requires some investment. There are many benefits provided by Kubernetes, such as autoscalability, automation, or deployment scenarios. However, these benefits may not justify the necessary investment.
This investment concerns several areas:
- Infrastructure costs: The costs associated with running the control plane and the worker nodes may be relatively high. Additionally, the costs may rise if you want to use various Kubernetes expansions, such as GitOps or a service mesh (described later). They also require additional resources to run and provide more overhead on top of your application's regular services. Apart from the nodes themselves, you should also factor in other costs. Some of the Kubernetes features work best when deployed to a supported cloud provider. This means that in order to benefit from those features, you'd have to go down one of the following routes:
a. Move your...