[florbnit]

K8s team insists k8s team needs to exist. Just fire them already, hire a consultant to set you up if you can’t do it yourself. And the difference in cost will certainly be covered by the savings on the k8s team.

No need to worry about them, they’ll easily get a job at Amazon running the infrastructure that you will use instead of running the infrastructure you would have built for them.

[hbogert]

Letting consultants do this one-off is the worst you could do. If you can't do it yourself do it fully managed with your cloud provider, or hire a party which maintains k8s on a subscription basis

[florbnit]

That is literally what I’m saying.