The only real upsite is how easy it is to install and maintain. But that's hardly important with pretty cheap hosted solutions around (at least cheap in comparison to hiring several SRE to maintain the cluster)
Indeed - something like AKS can get you up and running very quickly, whereas as recently as 6 months ago unless you had a k8s wizard-guru on staff, there was no point in even trying to go it alone, esp. not into Production.
It also suggests that the skill set of the on-prem k8s expert will decline in demand over time, there will be less demand for people who can set it up from scratch on bare metal. We shall see!
Indeed - something like AKS can get you up and running very quickly, whereas as recently as 6 months ago unless you had a k8s wizard-guru on staff, there was no point in even trying to go it alone, esp. not into Production.
It also suggests that the skill set of the on-prem k8s expert will decline in demand over time, there will be less demand for people who can set it up from scratch on bare metal. We shall see!