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I was a very early kubernetes adopter and moved to production very very fast, as of now I been using k8s in prod for about 3 years. it was not easy, we needed to create some tooling around it to have a decent workflow for all of engineering for it.

but now is a total delight the amount of automation and guesswork for engineers is minimal they have everything at reach either from a ui or a CLI tool.

I would say the biggest downside to kubernetes is that at first there appears to be a lot of magic to deploy it, official docs recommend tools that hide all of the details about how k8s work and what each component actually do. so it took a while to figure it all out. k8s is still missing some things for high available production deployments like Multi DC and Multiple regions, you will have to do a lot on your own for deployments like that.