[manigandham]

Yes, if you have to install it from scratch then yes, it's more work. You can install from the source binaries or use KOPS or Rancher or a dozen other installers to set it up in a few clicks or CLI commands. If you're on the clouds, then stick with the managed offerings since they actually give you free master nodes.

Federation/multi-cluster is being reworked so multiple K8S clusters around the world on different providers can act as one, or you can use Rancher or some bash scripts to accomplish most of it today.

Also K8S is actually moving towards standards as every release includes a new interface for things that were previously proprietary, and now just use plugins for whatever provider you want.