I wrote an automated tool to migrate all my ECS tasks to deployment files (seperated by Deployment, Service, SA and Ingress) just to get a running start. I’ll have a look at Kustomize, thanks for the heads up!

• Yes, I guess you’re right. shit.management is a good domain name.
• I guess I’ll find out when I get there, still at a beginning of a deployment pipeline
• I am using deployment manifests. Not too sure what Kustomize is, I’m still quite a noob

• Yes, I guess the rollout will be dev -> Preproduction (environment that equivalent to production) -> Production
• No downtime, but why would that be an issue? I make a deployment, old pod goes down, new pod goes up.
• That is mostly my job. My manager suggested I calculate the cost of moving the containerized services outside the instance and have them run on the cluster in a separate namespace (meaning 1 namespace for every developer).

No gods, no masters!

The decision will be based upon the parameters you mentioned, with a focus on cost, so they are a bit hard to ignore :)