Trying to migrate my $work from hosting on manually configured onprem physical servers, I evaluated OpenShift, K8s, Docker Swarm and AWS.

I had drank the Docker kool-aid pretty hard and spinning up individual nodes was easy, until I started projecting forward what the final architecture would look like - patching, failover, backup, disaster recovery etc.

Eventually I convinced my boss to pay for Heroku and went home early.