Sure could, if it provides benefits that outweight the additional work. Insurance companies will happily pay a couple more IT-specialists if it reduces the amount of cases they have to cover by an arbitrary percentage. Tools very much can serve other purposes than reducing the friction of human attention.
If you can containerize your infra and thereby mitigate threat vectors that may put your entire enterprise at risk if exploited, that's a good business call to make, even if the cost of your IT-department gets inflated by some margin.
More work means
- more employees needed
- more direct reports for managers
- more jobs for x technology
- more people learning x technology because of those jobs
- more StackOverflow questions for x
- more companies using x technology because it's "easy to hire for"
- more money to be made in teaching x
- more learning material for x
https://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/joke/cpp.htm
Warning to bashers...it's a fake interview...
Does it add work compared to setting up a VM with Docker and Watchtower? - for sure..
But does it add work compared to setting up something that gives you all the same benefits of k8s without using k8s? - imho definitely not.
That's the catch, if running your app on a manually setup VM is equivalent to running your app on Kubernetes then you don't understand what Kuberentes is or provide.