[xxorde]

It's interesting that you are satisfied with GKE. Do you rely on the k8s-API to be (high) available? We were using the API as our source of truth for Patroni, but we had to configure some really high timeouts in order to compensate regular multi minute API downtimes.

[yashap]

We need the services we run inside K8s to be highly available (as well as K8s ingress), but the K8s API we care less about. We haven't noticed any K8s API downtime issues, but I guess we mostly hit the K8s API during deploys, which for us are likely not frequent enough to notice the downtime you're talking about.