Both of these taught me that Kubernetes is extremely complex, and that most people who are trying to use it are not prepared for the sheer amount of work that lies between the marketing brochure and the system those brochures promise.
...
GKE SRE taught me that even the foremost Kubernetes experts cannot safely operate Kubernetes at scale.
This is rough to hear coming from a former engineer at a top cloud company which has often lead the way on “marketing brochures”.