"Classic" approach turned out to be maddeningly harder.
Everything, even inside single "application", going slightly off the reservation. Services that would die in stupid ways. Painful configuration that would have been abstracted out were I running containers on k8s (some benefits might be realized with Docker compose, but docker on its own is much more brittle than k8s).
So much SSH-ing to a node to tweak things. apt-get fscking the server. Etc.
Everything, even inside single "application", going slightly off the reservation. Services that would die in stupid ways. Painful configuration that would have been abstracted out were I running containers on k8s (some benefits might be realized with Docker compose, but docker on its own is much more brittle than k8s).
So much SSH-ing to a node to tweak things. apt-get fscking the server. Etc.
Oh, and logging being shitshow.