Its really weird that your argument is based on just the cost.
I mean you mentioned yourself you worked at google right?
Perhaps you just haven't actually experienced the issues kubernetes is solving?
How often have you seen that certificates expired? I have seen that. Plenty of times. Its not an issue creating that lets encrypt cronjob, its still something you need to do right.
Security Updates? Have you seen how many companies run with old non updated VMs?
Disk full due to logs? Yes seeing this regularly.
Memory leak on a service and someone needs to restart it manually until someone else fixes the issue? Yes!
Requesting a VM, hardware, infrastructure, getting it and the whole lifecycle management of it in the backend? Its real.
Ansible Scripts, puppet or just bash scripts and a word document to tell you how this magic machine was set up? Yepp.
Kubernetes solves all those problems.
Your static website on borg, if it sill runs, has probably still a valid certificate, is running on a secure infrastructure, is equally configured on every instance and not weird on 1 of 6 servers and just runs.
A smart person taking responsibility for all of this, costs you much more then just a few hundred bucks a month. And you need that person. With Kubernetes, this person now can manage and operate much more servers under his/her fingertips better easier and more secure then if it would have been vms.
And in my personal experience: That shit runs more stable because that shit can restart and being recreated and it just solves a handfull of shitty memory or disk full issues.
I mean you mentioned yourself you worked at google right?
Perhaps you just haven't actually experienced the issues kubernetes is solving?
How often have you seen that certificates expired? I have seen that. Plenty of times. Its not an issue creating that lets encrypt cronjob, its still something you need to do right.
Security Updates? Have you seen how many companies run with old non updated VMs?
Disk full due to logs? Yes seeing this regularly.
Memory leak on a service and someone needs to restart it manually until someone else fixes the issue? Yes!
Requesting a VM, hardware, infrastructure, getting it and the whole lifecycle management of it in the backend? Its real.
Ansible Scripts, puppet or just bash scripts and a word document to tell you how this magic machine was set up? Yepp.
Kubernetes solves all those problems.
Your static website on borg, if it sill runs, has probably still a valid certificate, is running on a secure infrastructure, is equally configured on every instance and not weird on 1 of 6 servers and just runs.
A smart person taking responsibility for all of this, costs you much more then just a few hundred bucks a month. And you need that person. With Kubernetes, this person now can manage and operate much more servers under his/her fingertips better easier and more secure then if it would have been vms.
And in my personal experience: That shit runs more stable because that shit can restart and being recreated and it just solves a handfull of shitty memory or disk full issues.