It sounds like it's not easy to figure out the permissions, envvars, memory size, etc. of your existing system, and that's why the migration is so difficult? That's not really one of Kubernetes' (many) failings.

Yes, and now we are back at the ancestor comment’s original point: “at the end of the day kubernetes feels like complexity trying to abstract over complexity, and often I find that's less successful that removing complexity in the first place”

Which I understand to mean “some people think using Kubernetes will make managing a system easier, but it often will not do that”

Can you elaborate on other things you think Kubernetes gets wrong? Asking out of curiosity because I haven't delved deep into it.