I actually don’t see why a PaaS couldn’t do all of this better. Especially at larger companies, where containers and monitoring have been the norm internally forever, it is unclear why PaaS offerings still feel primitive... maybe there is some technology limitation here.

Edit: disclaimer, I have not used a PaaS service in a couple years.

What I was getting at was, maybe K8s folks should look ahead (serverless) and not back (PaaS).

Serverless is not a strict upgrade to containerized service deploys in any sense.

Why not?

It takes containers to their logical conclusion by generalizing them to a function while removing quite some operational overhead on the way.

I think PaaS, autodeployed from a branch, is the best system for most orgs.