I would not recommend most people to run their own k8s cluster. Even Amazon's EKS is enough of a pain in the ass I don't think it's close to a "define once, for

I would not recommend most people to run their own k8s cluster. Even Amazon's EKS is enough of a pain in the ass I don't think it's close to a "define once, forget about it" type of experience. However, this is pretty much my experience using GKE on Google Cloud. You can get a cluster up and running and start deploying stuff to it in a matter of minutes.