This is how I feel about my Honda, and to some extent, Kubernetes. In the former case I kept a 2006 model in good order for so long I skipped at least two (automobile) generation's worth of car-to-phone teething problems, and after years of hearing people complain about their woes I've found the experience of connecting my iphone to my '23 car pretty hassle-free. In the latter, I am finally moving a bunch of workloads out of EC2 after years of nudging from my higher-ups and, while it's still far from a simple matter I feel like the managed solutions in EKS and GKE have matured and greatly lessen the pain of migrating to K8S. I can only imagine what I would have gotten bogged down with had I promptly acted on my bosses' suggestion to do this six or seven years ago. (I also feel very lucky that the people I work for let me move on these things in my own due time.)

In the meantime you had for years a car without connecting your iphone, so you completely didn't have that feature! There are pros and cons everywhere, but I'm more prone to change often and fix things that wait for feature to be stable and meantime do without them. Of course, when I can afford it, e.g. not in changing my car every two years :')

This.

At $PAST_DAYJOB we've adopted Docker "only" around 2016, and importantly, we've used it almost identically to how we used to deploy "plain" uWSGI or Apache apps: a bunch of VMs, run some Ansible roles, pull the code (now image), restart, done.

The time to move to k8s is when you have a k8s-sized problem. [Looks at Github: 760 releases, 3866 contributors.] Yeah, not now.