> Isn't it just Kubernetes under the hood? That's not the right question...Kubernetes is just one of the building blocks for easy and secure app deployment. It is not a one-shot answer for day two operations such as reliable databases, load balancing, backups, certificates, and data security...With SetOps, you don't need to care how we run containers – you'll profit from the sensible choices and long hours our infrastructure experts spent to make sure it runs well.

I have really mixed feelings about this response.

On the one hand, I 100% agree - vanilla k8s is not prod-ready, and you need to do a _lot_ of work to figure out some things, especially around persistent storage (but load balancing and certs are a pretty solved problem).

But the line "you don't need to care how we run containers" bugs me. Maybe your two-person start up doesn't need to know, but eventually you will grow to the point that you _do_ need to care how things are running, and need control over it. This is why so many companies end up outgrowing Heroku and have to go through an expensive migration.

What I'd love to see is a "batteries-included Kubernetes", which allows me to slowly take control over more and more of the stack, until I'm a 1000 person company and ready to run my own clusters.