Do you still recommend they host their applications in containers (e.g. Docker)? I feel like it's fairly low effort to start out that way, but can be a pain to add later.
Re:Ask HN: What is your Kubernetes nightmare?
by anderiv on Monday June 27, 2022 @12:42PM
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Being that they're all using ECS, yes containerizing using Docker is a prerequisite.
Doh. I am only familiar with Azure, and was confusing ECS with ordinary VMs. Sorry about the stupid question!
100%. To answer the OP's question: my nightmare is having to use it at all. I work with small, very early-stage companies whose applications by and large are not complicated. Perhaps at some level of scale and/or complexity, k8s makes sense. For the vast majority of the cases I see, something like ECS does everything they need, while being significantly more simple to understand, develop for, and debug.