Managed Kubernetes has really changed the economics of deployment. Kubernetes administration sucks about as much as vSphere or Open Stack. Which is to say: a lo

Managed Kubernetes has really changed the economics of deployment. Kubernetes administration sucks about as much as vSphere or Open Stack. Which is to say: a lot. You can debate the details but you are talking highly trained people and potentially several of them to run a large installation. Plus your management chain now needs to worry about HA, security, upgrade being covered. Managed Kubernetes services like EKS replace that with half a person or less + about $100/month overhead per cluster.