With Hetzner VMs and k3s one could run a k8 cluster with amazingly low cost. There are even ready-made repos that make it lighting fast to deploy and easy to maintain...

https://github.com/kube-hetzner/terraform-hcloud-kube-hetzne...

Even Hetzner maintains a few repos for that:

https://github.com/orgs/hetznercloud/repositories?q=kubernet...