I think the author missed some key points:
1) It will take you longer than you think 2) It will be harder than you imagined 3) It’s harder to find people who know it and non-trivial to get good at it (this should have been closer to the top) your project can be done in six months by five k8s experts but you only found one dude who knows it and he’s more a’ight than pro.
It’s probably still worth it, just go in with your eyes open.
Be prepared for this unfortunate pattern: “this thing I want just doesn’t work and probably never will.
Deploying k8s on a small, self-contained project that you just want to set up and go forever is probably a good place to begin. If you try to move your whole production workflow in one go... You’re going to have a bad time.