Yes, you can be up and running with a multi-machine lab install in a couple hours, even if you're rolling the component installations and configuration yourself

Yes, you can be up and running with a multi-machine lab install in a couple hours, even if you're rolling the component installations and configuration yourself. In K8s production cloud workloads, this is usually offloaded to GKE/EKS/Kops, but the equivalent Kubernetes manual installation is appreciably more heavy-handed.