May be I don't see something. I'm learning about Kube right now and I like it. It's like docker-compose done right. Managing Kube cluster might not be that easy, but that's why managed offerings are there. And you can easily scale with Kube. And by scale I don't necessary mean scale up, because you can scale down as well and that's important to save your precious money.
Few other Kube goodies:
1. Plenty of apps are available as helm charts. It's like pre-build docker image, but even better and easier to install and manage (!).
2. There are some marvelous operator like Postgres operators which will do the hard work of managing Postgres database for you, including replication, backups, upgrading. On the down side is the fact that when it broke, you need an expertise... So may be managed database still is better for small scale.
I'm coming to kube as someone who spend some time dealing with docker-compose servers. And I feel like kube will be better.
For new projects, even on small scale, it's likely that I'll choose kube.
Few other Kube goodies:
1. Plenty of apps are available as helm charts. It's like pre-build docker image, but even better and easier to install and manage (!).
2. There are some marvelous operator like Postgres operators which will do the hard work of managing Postgres database for you, including replication, backups, upgrading. On the down side is the fact that when it broke, you need an expertise... So may be managed database still is better for small scale.
I'm coming to kube as someone who spend some time dealing with docker-compose servers. And I feel like kube will be better.
For new projects, even on small scale, it's likely that I'll choose kube.