I don't understand how these posts exist when much of my consulting and career for the last few years has been on companies that have basically set up a bare bones out of the manual EKS/GCP solution and just essentially let it sit for 3+ years untouched until it got to a crisis. That to me as a systems engineer is nuts and a testament to how good this stuff is when you get it even kind of right. Of course, I'm referring to managed systems. Doing Kubernetes from scratch I would not dream of doing.