Do you need Kubernetes?
Seven honest questions about your team, services, and traffic. Spoiler: the most common answer is no.
Please answer every question before getting your verdict.
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Kubernetes is great software that solves problems most teams don't have: coordinating many services across many machines with many people. If that's not you, the cluster becomes the most complex thing you run — and you become its operator.
The scoring here is deterministic and deliberately biased toward "no", because that's the honest default. Everything runs in your browser; the shareable link just encodes your answers.
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- Introduction to Docker — start with containers, not clusters
- Introduction to Docker Containers — how containers actually run
- What's the best platform to deploy your projects? — the PaaS landscape
- Deployment strategy on fly.io — what "use a PaaS" looks like in practice
- What is Serverless? — the other way to not run servers
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