I’ve just moved my docker stuff over to kubernetes so I’m probably a little further along than you are.

I’ve been creating deployments from scratch - they’re really not much more complicated than docker-compose configs. Once I cracked translating the first docker-compose.yml to its k8s equivalent it was reasonably easy to do the rest. There’s a learning curve but it’s not too steep (yet).

I haven’t looked at Helm much yet - it seems to be more powerful than I need at the moment.