If you need a service to manage K8s for you, then that's a red flag already (regarding K8s, not you personally.) If the service is so complicated that experienced engineers tell me constantly that only managed K8s is the way to do it, that tells me enough about why it's going to be a rough journey that should probably be avoided with IaaS or PaaS.
> ... and wildly a better pattern than just running VMs.
I've never had an issue running VMs, personally. And when I join a firm and begin helping them, I find I can very quickly and easily come up to speed with their infrastructure when it's based on straight IaaS/SaasS/PaaS. If it's K8s, it's often way more complicated ("Hey! We should template our YAML configs and then use Ansible to produce the Helm charts and then run those against the infra!" - ha ha!)
> If you need a service to manage K8s for you, then that's a red flag already
It's really not, k8s does a ton for you, trying to do the same with VMs would be unbelievably complex
> that should probably be avoided with IaaS or PaaS.
PaaS is great till it isn't, seen plenty of companies hit the edges of PaaS and then need to move to k8s
> infrastructure when it's based on straight IaaS/SaasS/PaaS
Again this is great till it isn't (see heroku) and then people move to k8s. Having control and understanding of the underlying infrastructure is important unless your just running some basic web app
If you need a service to manage K8s for you, then that's a red flag already (regarding K8s, not you personally.) If the service is so complicated that experienced engineers tell me constantly that only managed K8s is the way to do it, that tells me enough about why it's going to be a rough journey that should probably be avoided with IaaS or PaaS.
> ... and wildly a better pattern than just running VMs.
I've never had an issue running VMs, personally. And when I join a firm and begin helping them, I find I can very quickly and easily come up to speed with their infrastructure when it's based on straight IaaS/SaasS/PaaS. If it's K8s, it's often way more complicated ("Hey! We should template our YAML configs and then use Ansible to produce the Helm charts and then run those against the infra!" - ha ha!)