You seem to have missed the point of what makes Kubernetes a really nice system to work with. It's not the machines. It's the comosible components, the service

You seem to have missed the point of what makes Kubernetes a really nice system to work with. It's not the machines. It's the comosible components, the service building blocks I can get with an API call. * Want traffic into a cluster, ask for an Ingress. * Want to auto-scale? Ask for a HorizontalPodAutoscaler. * Want to manage CPU and memory rather than number of containers? VerticalPodAutoscaler. * Want to point your monitoring system at a port? PodMonitor or ServiceMonitor And of course, you can extend on the basic plugins. Want a bunch of databases? Maybe install the Vitess operator and simply make an API call to create an instance of VitessCluster. There are a dozen options, depending on what flavor of database you want. Oh, and you don't need a sysadmin/SRE to do all this for you. You can be granted rights to a Namespace and compose everything you need in your namespace.