[dantetheinferno]

I built out the Kubernetes stack for data processing / batch processing with Airflow at Everlane. Fully automated deploys, monitoring, etc. Mind you - we didn't build this from scratch / use native Helm charts, but used an integration partner that gave us a much better foundation. The data engineers were responsible for maintenance, deploys, etc., but with the sophistication we got it was very rare to have to actually do helm deploys.

[hwatkins]

I think this is the key, someone can easily use k8s in the wrong way, so if you don't understand the concepts and try to use it like a VM you will have serious issues.