alt Hacker News> thousands of monitoring checks per minute
That isn’t a lot. You could easily run that from one host. The reason people reach for Kubernetes (and similar) is because they need to scale past that single host dependency.
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You could, but they don't, meaning their argument is still sound (whether they _could_ use a single host is besides the point, they're not doing that).
> The reason people reach for Kubernetes (and similar) is because they need to scale past that single host dependency.
I have some stuff on single-node k3s. Because it's standard so I don't have to care.
The reason most people reach for Kubernetes is because it's cool. The entire infra the vast majority of Kubernetes users have could run on a single bare metal machine with a second one for redundancy.
To be fair: using Kubernetes anyways builds the skill just in case you become one of the 0.1% who actually need it down the line.
..and HA
100%. And a shared mental model. I love how I can scale up all my services the same way, across clouds.
It's great.