I strongly disagree. Initially, I've been reluctant to do so myself, however, once I read a bit more of it, it's actually fairly simple for simple things and ju

I strongly disagree. Initially, I've been reluctant to do so myself, however, once I read a bit more of it, it's actually fairly simple for simple things and just a bit more complex for very complex stuff. It's no harder or more involved than setting up a VM on your own. The cost is also pretty much the same for small scale as you basically have free k8s masters by now. Also if you host a bunch of side projects, it's actually better in terms of resource utilization and separation of projects, it dynamically schedules pods based on resource requests across the nodes it has at hand so you can host several projects fully separate on a single or a handful of nodes depending on requirements.