[aliasxneo]

I've been running Kubernetes in production for two years and have never experienced anything remotely close to this. The worst is a node dies every now and then and, on a rare occasion, a workload doesn't happily migrate.

Of course, my experience is in no way authoritative, but referencing this type of incident as common is pretty foreign to me and may be mostly relegated to self-managed clusters.

[goosejuice]

GKE since 2017 here. Healthcare. I think we had one major outage that involved the cluster itself. It resolved itself and we never discovered what caused it. That was in the early days, so I recall very little.

Now I'm using Fly.io. They both have their advantages. Folks tend to make kubernetes sound way more difficult than it is. It can be overkill but it can also solve so many challenges out of the box. At least when it's managed. It'll cost you though.

[JohnMakin]

> may be mostly relegated to self-managed clusters.

Foreign to me too, but not surprising people report issues as common. there are a lot of footguns in kubernetes that come from a lack of understanding.

You can build a robust kubernetes cluster that hosts an application that’s nearly impossible to bring offline without an act of god, it just takes some know-how and a tiny bit of effort/experience.