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If you're so good you can intuite your way through AWS, you're good enough to do the same with K8s. It's about the same level of complexity, really. Don't listen to juniors who saw a cloud for the first time, shit the bed and went back to deploying onto something that looks more like their laptop.

Start with Minikube on Ubuntu via Snap if you want the really easy way. Deploy that on Hetzner or something using Cloud-init. Auto cluster discovery is a job for one evening. I like to use Pulumi or Terraform to see what I can play with on a cloud provider and operate it in a sane way.

And I use the K8s provider too: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/kubernetes...