My company switched from VMs to a managed k8s cluster (gcloud). It made everything harder, the application became about 5x slower and instead of a $300 monthly

My company switched from VMs to a managed k8s cluster (gcloud). It made everything harder, the application became about 5x slower and instead of a $300 monthly bill we paid for the VMs now we pay $1300. So in summary: * we still have same amount of developers * we still need same amount of sysadmins * we introduced more complexity * the application became slower * the whole thing became much more expensive (managed k8s price, education, consulting, etc.) * but! we have the same amount of income every month. Surprisingly our users don't pay more for the same service because we run our stuff on k8s