[bzzzt]

> Almost every other week (99% reliability - yeah right), some part of the system just dies and leaves services unreachable or unresponsive. There is a continuous effort to solve this issues and even Google support was contacted with the answer boiling down to: shit happens, deal with it.

The entire point of Kubernetes is redundancy through multiple stateless service instances that can and will be killed at any moment. If you take an application that doesn't work in such an environment, for instance a highly stateful application, that will cause pain. If you want simple 'lift and shift' to the cloud avoid Kubernetes.

[fancythat]

Applications in question are all stateless and worked in distributed VM environment without issues, usually with simple Nginx or HAProxy redundancy setup. I see your point and it is valid, however, this wasn't the case in the examples I mentioned.