[professor_v]

I remember about 5 years ago I tried to deploy it on CoreOS using the available documentation and literally couldn't get it working.

I haven't done a manual deployment since. I hope it got significantly better and I may be an idiot but the reputation isn't fully undeserved.

The problem back then was also that this was usually the first thing you had to do to try it out. Doing a complicated deployment without knowing much about it doesn't make it any easier.

[Uberphallus]

Same here. I just wanted to play with it for my toy projects and personal services, so I didn't really push a whole lot, but it just felt like there were too many moving parts to figure out. I didn't need autoscaling or most of the advanced features of k8s, so I just went back to my libvirt-based set of scripts.

[ClumsyPilot]

I run kubernetes on a home server, but it took me a couple weeks of testing and trial and error to arrive at a setup I was happy with, and I already had experience of K8S in the cloud. At the time I was stuck without a work laptop, so had time to self-educate, but normally I wouldnt have that kind of time to sink in.