[davewritescode]

I’m not saying I agree with the comment above you but Kubernetes upgrades and keeping all your addons/vpc stuff up to date can be a never ending slog of one-way upgrades that, when they go wrong, can cause big issues.

[organsnyder]

Those are all issues that should be solved by the managed provider.

It's been a while since I spun up a k8s instance on AWS, Azure, or the like, but when I did I was astounded at how many implementation decisions and toil I had to do myself. Hosted k8s should be plug-and-play unless you have a very specialized use-case.

[adammarples]

Yeah if you pay someone to manage something for you, it's not hard. That's because you're not doing it. Like air travel and taxes, it's easy.