Did K8s reinvent VMs though? People keep forgetting that vm!=container and the security posture is completely different. Also, for the amounts of complexity K8s adds it's not worth the overhead in 95% of cases (i get it that it's cool and everyone and their dog want to claim they have experience with it - I am affraid that once the "movement" fizzles out we're going to be stuck with a lot of things that are over-overengineered)

I am currently overengineering my previous work to run it inside kubernetes. It isn't my decision, i just asked for a VM and the access to ansible, but the chiefs wanted to use kubernetes for everything.

I don't think this is that bad tbh. I runs my unit tests on container construction and while it was tedious to develop, mostly because i cannot run docker on my work PC, i understand that it makes it easier to inventory and check the advancement. The management will always love it, so i think kubernetes is here to stay. Not because it solve a lot of engineering issues (not for me anyway, i'd rather run a cron in my VM than declare a kube cronJob), but because it solve a lot of other fondamental issues for the management (inventory, visibility on existing/running projects. And everybody use the same system without using the _same_ system.)