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How? What is keeling over so often on that is not on a simpler setup?

I've set up EKS multiple times across different companies with few nodes and everything runs smoothly all of the time.

Can you go into detail?

Indeed. Hosted k8s has been low maintenance in my experience, much lower than managing a bunch of VMs. I think the common thread between people who have horror stories using k8s is either pains from self-hosting or teams who adopted it without experience and used the ample rope it gives to hang themselves.

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