> If what you want to deploy is best described as “an application” it’s probably not the right tool for the job. If what you want to deploy is best described as “50 interconnected applications” it’s probably going to save you time.

This is an excellent way of looking at it. I've struggled for many years to come up with a response to hacker news comments saying you don't need kubernetes, but this sums it up about as well as I could imagine.