I can confirm that maintaining a Kubernetes cluster is a full time job. Due to its design, there are a lot of moving parts even for the most minimum deployments.
Low key I hate touching Google-created projects. On paper technically sound but in practice a guaranteed usability disaster.
For some people learning to change the oil on their car could be “a full time job”, but it doesn’t change the fact oil changes are a commodity i can go pay $50 for at a shop.
Similarly, any cloud provider worth it’s salt provides a managed k8 cluster as a commodity these days.
Low key I hate touching Google-created projects. On paper technically sound but in practice a guaranteed usability disaster.