Our platform team got into k8s for some reason at my company. Because it’s enterprise there’s never really the “millions of requests per second” sort of problems because every deployment is single tenant. We have experienced k8s engineers who I guess we’re just using the tools we know, but wow it’s been such a hassle and has caused so much toil. Right now we’re having trouble scaling back ends for parallel jobs with k8s, which is a problem we easily solved with regular tooling in the past pre-k8s.
On enterprises, k8s solves a different kind of scaling problem. You tend to have hundreds of apps that are business critical and need to be managed.
K8s provides a consistent way to package, deploy with HA and monitor those apps. Ideally it replaced tons of ad-hoc scripts and confluence pages that are very poorly maintained.
