[hdjrudni]

I find it much easier to upgrade k8s than a bare naked server.

With managed k8s, your host upgrades the control plane. And then you can upgrade your PHP, Python, Node, what have you, by flipping a number in your Dockerfile.

Not like other forms of sever infra don't need monitoring and upgrades anyway.

[darkwater]

The day Kubernetes will have an LTS version supported for 5 years with no API churn, and EKS and other k8s managed systems will have an LTS version based on the k8s LTS plus a bunch of LTS addons supported natively, then I will agree. Actually we will probably live in a better world overall.

Meanwhile, the update stress of core k8s - even managed - is much higher than a good managed old fashioned (immutable) infrastructure.