[dinkleberg]

As a huge proponent of kubernetes for the enterprise world (a big part of my day job), I won’t touch it for small to medium sized projects.

The cost of running a managed kubernetes is too expensive to justify for the benefits in these cases. And if you choose to self-manage to cut the money cost, it ends up being significantly more expensive from a time and sanity perspective.

[yebyen]

What are the costs of a managed Kubernetes? I don't know if I understand what you mean, because most managed Kubernetes that I know are practically not, or just nominally more expensive in terms of resource cost. Like GKE, AKS, you don't pay for manager nodes, so it's actually a cost savings compared to running your own Kubernetes with kubespray or another method that leaves managing the control plane nodes up to you - managed Kubernetes is actually cheaper, if you're building for high availability.

Are you referring to the cost of migration (since most Kubernetes adopters are probably also learning K8s for the first time as well?)