I Run Kubernetes for a Bank and at Home. Here's When You Shouldn't.

cw@wagner.org.za (Chrisando Wagner) — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Every eighteen months or so, the same argument does a lap of the internet. Someone writes “we moved off Kubernetes and cut our infra bill by 60%.” A few months later, someone else writes “we moved back to Kubernetes and here’s why.” Both posts get the same engagement, both are right about their own environment, and both get quoted afterwards as if they’d settled something universal. Neither side did.

I’m writing this because I sit on both ends of that argument at the same time, every day, and I don’t think either tribe is being honest with the other.

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I Run Kubernetes for a Bank and at Home. Here's When You Shouldn't.