Yeah, k3s doesn't buy 2 routers, 2 switches, 2 PDUs, 2 firewalls, 2 proxies to sit in front of k3s, 2 internet connections (if those are offered) etc etc the li

Yeah, k3s doesn't buy 2 routers, 2 switches, 2 PDUs, 2 firewalls, 2 proxies to sit in front of k3s, 2 internet connections (if those are offered) etc etc the list goes on. Not to mention that HA things like to come in 3s. Then if you are going to have remember that cloud networking is pretty beefy and if you want k3s to do distributed storage you will need some pretty beefy network hardware. There are a lot of things hidden in the cloud costs that people forget about. The one thing running your own stuff does allow you to do is make choices and trade offs. If this switch goes down and we have 6 hours of downtime to replace it what is that worth etc.