This doesn’t seem consistent with my experience. When you say “4-6 weeks to get a cluster up” i wonder if you actually mean to learn kubernetes and play around with deploying things, as that would make sense. I was able to install k3s in around 15 minutes and deploy my first service, myself.
I mean for production, with scripts/playbooks/firewalls/rbac/storage/networking/ingress/logging/backups/etc. Yeah, you can stand up a toy cluster in matter of minutes, but that’s not the same.
