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Discussion on: You probably shouldn’t be using Kubernetes for your new startup

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Chris Dodds

I’ve only used docker-compose for local development. It works fine for that and is an order of magnitude simpler than k8s. I don’t really think of it as being container-orchestration and more as “portable dev environment” but I may be ignorant of its capabilities.

Any type of orchestration adds complexity. I’d avoid it in general unless there was a clear, painful need.

No real k8s battle stories, but this was an interesting problem: dev.to/liquid_chickens/kubernetes-...