And that is a sound solution if you have limitless VC bux to burn while you implement your over-engineered solution, but most shops have to be a little bit scrappier.
Not to mention that you end up scaling to a size where k8s is a sound solution, that "costly" migration is going to be a rounding error on your balance sheet
> that "costly" migration is going to be a rounding error on your balance sheet
This. Just because your services are containerized doesn't mean they'll scale well with each order of magnitude. Likely you'll need to re-architect other parts of the system to work at your new scale.
Not to mention that you end up scaling to a size where k8s is a sound solution, that "costly" migration is going to be a rounding error on your balance sheet