[jokethrowaway]

I had the opposite experience (in 2 different companies). Setting up K8s was quite straightforward and docs were helpful. We ended up building a deployment UI for it though.

Consul is nice and easy to use.

Nomad has been a painful experience: the default UI is confusing (people accidentally killed live containers), we have some small bits and pieces that don't quite behave as we expect and have no idea how to fix them. Error rate is too low to care and there are more pressing issues so likely WONTFIX. We often found ourselves looking into github issues for edge cases or over-allocating resources to overcome scheduling problems.

We considered just switching to their paid offering, just not to have to worry about this.

It kind of feels like that's their business model: attract engineers with OSS software and then upsell the paid version without all the warts.

[tutfbhuf]

Yup. Setting up k8s with kubeadm on bare-metal is very straight forward and can be done within a few minutes on any linux host that is supported by kubeadm and docker + ssh access.