> 2. Pay a cloud vendor to supply a working, managed Kubernetes cluster. ... which makes it trash IMHO. I don't see anything intrinsic about the problem domain

> 2. Pay a cloud vendor to supply a working, managed Kubernetes cluster. ... which makes it trash IMHO. I don't see anything intrinsic about the problem domain that mandates a completely uninstallable unmaintainable Rube Goldberg machine. But having it be that way certainly benefits the cloud vendors who push it since it keeps people from escaping big cloud costs and using simple commodity VMs, bare metal, or colocated stuff. Complex is the new closed. It can be fully "open" but it doesn't matter if mere mortals can't use it.