I didn't say it was a problem. My claim was just that it's easier in GKE than in GCE/EC2. I only mentioned multi-node because exposing a single VM to the inter

I didn't say it was a problem. My claim was just that it's easier in GKE than in GCE/EC2. I only mentioned multi-node because exposing a single VM to the internet is trivial -- just give it a public IP -- and thus is not an apples-to-apples comparison with the multi-node load balancing that you get from the entry-level k8s configuration of Service > Pod < Deployment.