Scaling wasn’t really what I was getting at there per se. Said generalise but that’s admittedly quite fuzzy. Meant it more in the abstraction layer and standardisation sense.

Installing stuff straight on server is very messy especially if it’s lots of different providers with their own dependencies. So you need to do some form of containers or VMs to isolate them. At which point you need some sort of tooling around that. And deal with failures etc. Before you know it you’ve reinvented k8s except with less standardization and more duck tape.

So it think there is a strong case for a k8s cluster but being mindful to keep it as simple as possible within that paradigm. Ie k8s but just the basic building blocks