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> I work at a place running a million containers deployed in all 3 (Azure, AWS, GCP)

Are you using AKS, EKS, GKE on those providers, or deploying your own k8s on top of the compute those providers offer? It sounds to me like the former.

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I’ve done smaller deployments on GKE and another on EKS, and I can tell you, they are different enough. It’s when you start having to autoscale, optimize resources by instance types, and manage network ingress that these quirks start really come out. The essential ideas are invariant across cloud providers though.

But I enjoy working with Kubernetes.

I should’ve been clearer about what I was getting at. I agree AKS, EKS, GKE etc (cloud gnostic k8s) are different enough to cause a growth of complexity when managing a mixed environment of them.

The post I was replying to seemed to be saying (by analogy) “Linux is hard to manage because I run into all sorts of trouble trying to support a mixed environment of SuSE, Ubuntu and RHEL, therefore Linux is just too complicated”.

The latter wouldn’t make sense. In such a case, there’s already little value to being in the cloud, but to be in several?..

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