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Managed k8s (e.g. GKE) and unmanaged k8s (e.g. kops/kubeadm etc) aren't really the same thing in terms of complexity. GKE takes a lot of the load off by making

Managed k8s (e.g. GKE) and unmanaged k8s (e.g. kops/kubeadm etc) aren't really the same thing in terms of complexity. GKE takes a lot of the load off by making it Google's problem. The possible downside (which may or may not matter depending on use case) is that you're tied to what Google's control plane provides. So if you want a shiney admission controller, you're out of luck unless they support it. But for basic workloads, it's likely to work well and their management solves a lot of vanilla k8s pain points.

peterwwillis 8y ago
This. It's perfectly fine to use GKE or AWS. Trying to set up your own cloud provider for a small project? Crazy. The amount of hours you have to spend learning how k8s works just to set it up properly from scratch will far exceed the r&d and operational cost of a less sophisticated small project set up from scratch. Pay for managed services, or do it as simple as possible.