I have never heard any infrastructure explained as “define once, forget about it.” Ever. Everything requires maintenance, monitoring, upgrades, security, etc. And things just randomly break.

I like Kubernetes but it is not without problems. And when your entire business is now leaning on Kubernetes, it can really hurt when it has problems and you can’t figure it out quickly.

And if your expertise is not running infrastructure, a lot of people, as this post explains, are better off on AWS or Google Cloud using managed services.

Or you might have a problem with the underlying storage platform that Kubernetes uses, so you now have to be a storage expert.

I think it’s telling how many job offers I receive from companies already running Kubernetes and need help with it.