Do our depolyment pipelines need to be so complex?

A brief overview of how deployment automation has evolved overtime.

A snapshot into today's state-of-the-art deployment process ... ahem k8s, serverless, cloud cough cough.

A social media app with billions of users or a streaming service with crazy spikes may need the superpower that k8s brings in, but does an app with barely 1000 concurrent users need something so powerful?

Lets take a look at how the applications used to be deployed and see if going back to the simpler times can ease our sleep.

Reviewing the traditional simplified way of deploying web apps that seem to be lost in time, we shall try and see if things need to be as complex as we have made them to be.