Right and I would love to leverage Kubernetes instead of our own plumbing of the OSS solutions, I just feel that operating it on prems requires a lot of overhea

Right and I would love to leverage Kubernetes instead of our own plumbing of the OSS solutions, I just feel that operating it on prems requires a lot of overhead that simpler tools arranged together do not have, also, when they fail it isn't catastrophic for the most part (except for Consul).