And there's zero setup. Just a deployment yaml that specifies exactly what you want deployed, which has the benefit of easy version control.

I don't get why people are so bent on hating Kubernetes. The mental cost to deploy a 6-line deployment yaml is less than futzing around with FTP and nginx.

Kube is the new LAMP stack. It's easier too. And portable.

If you're talking managed kube vs one you're taking the responsibility of self-managing, sure. But that's no different than self-managing your stack in the old world. Suddenly you have to become Sysadmin/SRE.