"It takes well over a million dollars just in engineer salary to get k8s up and running from scratch. And you still might not get there." - Cindy Sridharan[1](

"It takes well over a million dollars just in engineer salary to get k8s up and running from scratch. And you still might not get there." - Cindy Sridharan[1](https://twitter.com/copyconstruct/status/1020880388464377856?s=12 https://twitter.com/copyconstruct/status/1020880388464377856...) That said, I'm running a few GKE clusters now with an 18-month old production codebase, and its kind of been a pleasure. That's a good portion of a million dollars in my pocket, no matter how the start-up fares after its done ;-) [1][https://twitter.com/copyconstruct/status/1020880388464377856?s=12](https://twitter.com/copyconstruct/status/1020880388464377856?s=12) https://twitter.com/copyconstruct/status/1020880388464377856...