[withinboredom]

It took me 4-6 weeks to get a k8s cluster up from scratch and migrate to it. I don’t do devops for a living, but I’ve been building servers and doing devops stuff for fun for nearly 20 years. So I’m not a pro, but I know what I’m doing.

If your team is a bunch of software devs, you are doing the right thing… because k8s requires a bunch of knowledge you likely don’t have if you don’t have a Linux guru on the team. Even if you are using an expensive managed solution, things will go wrong and that knowledge is needed to prevent downtime.

[joshribakoff]

This doesn’t seem consistent with my experience. When you say “4-6 weeks to get a cluster up” i wonder if you actually mean to learn kubernetes and play around with deploying things, as that would make sense. I was able to install k3s in around 15 minutes and deploy my first service, myself.

[withinboredom]

I mean for production, with scripts/playbooks/firewalls/rbac/storage/networking/ingress/logging/backups/etc. Yeah, you can stand up a toy cluster in matter of minutes, but that’s not the same.