Comment by throwaway894345

I've always felt that Kubernetes isn't appropriate for most businesses to use directly, but rather it's a platform for simpler platforms--someone like Heroku would build on top of Kubernetes and expose a much simpler interface for their users so they don't have to think about SSL, DNS, logging, load balancing, auto-scaling, etc. Alternatively, maybe the problem is solved with "distributions" of Kubernetes analogous to Linux distros--preconfigured Kubernetes installations so you don't have to figure out how to configure your own Kubernetes service (arguably this is also what cloud providers give us with their managed k8s offerings). I'm curious to hear what others think.