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If you're going to deploy to a cloud service you are likely going to use the Kubernetes service provided by the cloud. EKS, AKS, GKE, etc. You don't need to slog through anything with those. Most people aren't going to be Kubernetes operators and will use the tools that are easy for them so they can focus on what they are doing (which isn't about operating a cluster). Time is finite and most people don't have the job…
Well, yeah, but how do you move from Docker Desktop kubernetes to something like AKS? Some time back, one of the things stopping me from migrating off Visual Studio was that I had been relying on the integrated tools to help with deployment of my small system. I came to the sudden realisation that I had no idea exactly what to do to deploy something like a lambda function or a container into ECS, because it was being…
Most developers will never set up a Kubernetes cluster from scratch, and they don't need to know how to do it, and outside of very small companies they probably won't even be allowed to do it. At most they will write a Helm chart or something similar, in order to install their software in a Kubernetes cluster that is maintained by SRE or a cloud provider.