I've been running DO k8s for about a year, works great. But in reality, you won't be paying $30. The node size that gives you is tiny and almost any setup will

I've been running DO k8s for about a year, works great. But in reality, you won't be paying $30. The node size that gives you is tiny and almost any setup will be a few hundred per month. This is assuming you have some kind of staging environments, probably some demo, all of these come with at least one database instance. Maybe it's not something as memory polite as PostgreSQL. Etc etc, real-world setups tend use a bit of hardware. If I wanted to save money, time and sleep I would deploy a production cluster to DO. Set up an office k8s cluster on local hardware for staging and I would host my own testing there. If it goes down I would deploy it temporarily in DO.