[mbyio]

If you use GKE, you have been spoiled. Other Kubernetes platforms - in particular EKS, which is what most people are going to use since most people use AWS - are way more work to setup and maintain. (Emphasis on the "maintain".)

Also, I think a lot of companies have really terrible devops practices that don't work in Kubernetes. So their move to Kubernetes includes a lot of extra work that isn't really caused by the move to Kubernetes.

[jordanthoms]

Yeah, that's probably a major factor here - we moved to google cloud specifically for GKE and it's been pretty great. Have had a couple of issues (mostly with kube-dns autoscaling not keeping up, node-local dns helped a lot), but ultimately it's saved far more work than it's created.