[cassianoleal]

I've been on a team of 6-8 running relatively large-scale clusters (2 big ones with lower hundreds of workloads through tens of namespaces/tenants, plus a couple smaller ones). To "keep the Kubernetes clusters running" is an afterthought at most. I mostly agree with your comment.

[RamRodification]

Do/Did you use some specific method or orchestration product to set it up?

[cassianoleal]

We use GKE but there's nothing stopping most organisations to do the same.

It doesn't bear much weight though, and I've had experience with other toolings largely to the same effect.

I agree with the sibling comment about upgrades - this is IMO where GKE really shines as a cluster upgrade is mostly a button-pressing exercise.

[Sahbak]

Not OP, but similar workloads, team of 5 We use kops to deplot and manage the clusters. The hardest part is updating, due to the workloads running on it. Other than that, little to no problems with kube itself.