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This Week in Programming: Kubernetes from Day One?

When you hear the word “Kubernetes” what are your first thoughts? As such, your first instincts when building a new application may not include the idea of building for Kubernetes — just keep it simple and build an MVP based on the customer’s needs, right?

Their solution is simple, of course — simply handoff that part to your favorite giant cloud provider by using their managed Kubernetes service and, voila!

While this is part of StackOverflow’s reasoning — “The effort to set up Kubernetes is less than you think. Certainly, it’s less than the effort it would take to refactor your app later on to support containerization.”

Surely, none of the arguments made here are going to be the make or break of your decision around Kubernetes, but what do you think?