Comment by Nextgrid

> I can run several distinct apps running different frameworks and versions > don't have to muck about with pm2 or supervisord or cronjobs, that's built in. I don't have to muck about with SSL certs/certbot

But doesn't literally any PaaS and provider with a "run a container" feature (AWS Fargate/ECS, etc) fit the bill without the complexity, moving parts and failure modes of K8s.

K8s makes sense when you need a control plane to orchestrate workloads on physical machines - its complexity and moving parts are somewhat justified there because that task is actually complex.

But to orchestrate VMs from a cloud provider - where the hypervisor and control plane already offers all of the above? Why take on the extra overhead by layering yet another orchestration layer on top?