[lakomen]

But managed is expensive. You have to pay at least double vs unmanaged (in the dedicated world, ofc there is no "unmanaged" k8s offer from those cloud providers, just an analogy). You are then bound to that cloud and its traffic prices and all those you mentioned are filthy expensive when it comes to traffic.

[alephnerd]

If you are dealing with the level of scale that allows you to fully take advantage of K8s, the cost of managed offerings is less than that of deploying and managing Openshift on-prem.

Also, the beancounters don't like on-prem as much anymore due to the upfront cost outlay.

I've been working with a number of major enterprise accounts and they've all been adopting managed K8s offerings for this very reason.