I'm assuming that it's someone who is unfamiliar with k8s or Ansible. You can quickly cobble together something solid from geerlingguy. It might need a day or two to hash up some basic yml - not long. Or... you could just ssh on your server and configure it manually, and cross your fingers - even quicker.
Even if you start with k8s and you want to scale, at some point you'll want to configure your images in a predictable way with something like Ansible. Whether you do that for the images you deploy, or your configure it in situ for a single-node, it's still the same complexity cost.
Even if you start with k8s and you want to scale, at some point you'll want to configure your images in a predictable way with something like Ansible. Whether you do that for the images you deploy, or your configure it in situ for a single-node, it's still the same complexity cost.