One small note of caution there is that using managed k8s solutions has some consequences for flexibility of what you can do. For one example, in most managed

One small note of caution there is that using managed k8s solutions has some consequences for flexibility of what you can do. For one example, in most managed k8s setups, you can't change the admission controllers used on a cluster unless the cloud provider exposes this via an interface. Some cloud providers do more of this than others. So with a minimal k8s managed option you might get stuck if your cloud provider doesn't support an admission controller or other API server option you need.