[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.