[mixedCase]

How? What is keeling over so often on that is not on a simpler setup?

I've set up EKS multiple times across different companies with few nodes and everything runs smoothly all of the time.

Can you go into detail?

[thaneross]

Indeed. Hosted k8s has been low maintenance in my experience, much lower than managing a bunch of VMs. I think the common thread between people who have horror stories using k8s is either pains from self-hosting or teams who adopted it without experience and used the ample rope it gives to hang themselves.