I am not a SDE but I did try one weekend to set-up a self managed k8s cluster in the previous company. I did have some previous knowledge of using k8 in GCP. Al

I am not a SDE but I did try one weekend to set-up a self managed k8s cluster in the previous company. I did have some previous knowledge of using k8 in GCP. Although when trying to set it up on a completely new cluster outside of GCP, I did run into some issues where I felt I was out of my depth. I think unknowingly I exposed whole of the cluster to the public internet. On the other hand, with docker swarm, I built a cluster in less than a day. So yeah setting up k8 isn't as trivial as you are making it out to be.