No. Not easier in my opinion. And some of the fires you only learn after getting burnt badly. [1] Note: my experience was all with cloud-provided Kubernetes, n

No. Not easier in my opinion. And some of the fires you only learn after getting burnt badly. [1] Note: my experience was all with cloud-provided Kubernetes, never running my own. So it was already an order of magnitude easier. Can't even imagine rolling my own. [2] [1] My personal favorite. Truly egregious, despite how amazing k8s is. https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/63371#issuecomment-633263227 https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/63371#issuec... [2] https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way