I know this utterly misses the larger point of your comment, but:
> They used Ansible scripts to spin up various AWS services
This seems less about using the "cool/new" tech... rather it's about using the "right" tech. Config management tools like Ansible/Chef/Puppet are very much previous-generation when it comes to cloud infrastructure.
They... can manage cloud infrastructure, but they were created prior to the ubiquity of cloud deployments, and the features are glued on. Not choosing a more modern IaC framework tells me they(those devs) were going to be making sub-optimal implementation decisions regardless.
Yeah, this project was several years old. Take this with a grain of salt, I'm not familiar with timelines in terms of k8s, but I would guess that it had not yet risen to popularity as it has in more recent years.
> They used Ansible scripts to spin up various AWS services
This seems less about using the "cool/new" tech... rather it's about using the "right" tech. Config management tools like Ansible/Chef/Puppet are very much previous-generation when it comes to cloud infrastructure.
They... can manage cloud infrastructure, but they were created prior to the ubiquity of cloud deployments, and the features are glued on. Not choosing a more modern IaC framework tells me they(those devs) were going to be making sub-optimal implementation decisions regardless.